2023 in Argentina

Events

Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
6 March: Argentine president Alberto Fernández announces the deployment of hundreds of federal security forces to the city of Rosario after an increase in violence between rival drug gangs.^[1]
22 March: Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli wins this year's Abel Prize "for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation". He becomes the first Latin American to win this prize.^[2]
2 June: Disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowksi.^[3]
13 August: Argentines vote in the primaries before the October general election.^[4]
22 October: Argentines vote for their new president.^[5]
23 October: Argentina has their first round of the two-round system, leaving Sergio Massa and Javier Milei for the second round with ~36% and ~30% of the votes respectively.^[6]

19 November: Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election.^[9]
10 December: Inauguration of Javier Milei: Javier Milei is sworn in as the President of Argentina.
16 December: At least 13 people are killed after a thunderstorm strikes Bahía Blanca.^[10]
20 December: Argentine monetary crisis: Argentine president Javier Milei announces a series of economic deregulation measures, targeting over 300 regulations including property and labor laws, to address the crisis.^[11]
26 December: The administration of Argentina's new President Javier Milei says the government will not renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before he took office, as part of plans for cutbacks to the government.^[12]
27 December: Thousands of union members and activists in Argentina protest a decree from President Javier Milei imposing deregulation and austerity measures meant to revive the country's economy.^[13]
29 December: Argentine president Javier Milei sends a letter to BRICS, rejecting the bloc's invitation for Argentina to join.^[14]

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