2005 in Argentina

Events

January 11: The state fines power distribution companies and national water company on grounds of bad quality service, and reclaims unpaid fines and unfulfilled investment goals, for a total of more $50 million.
January 14: Ex-naval officer Adolfo Scilingo goes to trial in Spain accused of killing political prisoners during the Dirty War. (Reuters Alertnet) (BBC)
- AFJPs (private retirement fund administrators) and other major local investors accept the terms of the debt restructuring proposed by the state, exchanging all their public debt bonds (worth $15,000 million).

3 February: Avowed feminist and militant atheist Carmen Argibay is sworn into the Supreme Court.
11 February: At least eight people are killed during a jail riot in Córdoba. All hostages taken by the prisoners were later freed by police. (Yahoo! News)
18 February: Catholic military chaplain Antonio Baseotto replies in harsh terms to statements by Minister of Health Ginés González García on abortion, starting a series of conflicts between the Church and the Argentine State.

March 7: In Spain, prosecutors of the case of Adolfo Scilingo request a prison sentence of 9,138 years. (Prensa Latina) (BBC)
March 10: Paul Schäfer, former leader of Colonia Dignidad community in Chile, is arrested accused of child sexual abuse. He had been on the run for 8 years. (Reuters) (BBC)

April 30: About 40,000 Argentinians and Uruguayans block the international Puerto Unzué-Fray Bentos bridge, protesting the planned building of two papermills on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, citing environmental concerns.

June 14: The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional two laws that granted immunity to Dirty War human rights abusers. (Bloomberg)
June 15: The Serbian special war crimes tribunal asks the government to ask Argentina for extradition of Nebojša Minić, suspected of crimes against humanity in Kosovo in 1999 (B92) (Reuters)

July 1: The People's Children National Movement, claiming an end to child hunger, close their 20,000-people march from Tucumán with a demonstration in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires.

4 November: Massive demonstrations against U.S. President George W. Bush at the Fourth Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata. (Reuters)
14 November: Buenos Aires mayor Aníbal Ibarra is impeached on accusations of negligence regarding the República Cromagnon nightclub fire of 2004.
24 November: Technicians and pilots of Aerolíneas Argentinas began a strike demanding pay rises. The strike lasts 9 days, strands 82,000 passengers and causes $10 million losses to the company.

6 December: The Fourth Summit of the Americas ends. Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela align against the U.S.-backed FTAA.
15 December: President Kirchner announces the anticipated cancellation of the public debt to the International Monetary Fund, for $9,810 million, in a single payment, with funds drawn from the foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank. (Reuters).
20 December: Piqueteros, leftist parties, labour unions, student groups and other NGOs march in Buenos Aires on the 4th anniversary of activists' deaths during the 2001 riots, asking for welfare subsidies, and denouncing the payment of the debt to the IMF.
21 December: Three government officers of the de la Rúa administration and six former Senators are accused of participation in a scandal involving bribes to pass a labour law reform in 2000.
- Former governor of Corrientes Raúl Romero Feris is sentenced to five years in prison for misappropriation of state funds.
30 December: Environmental groups and other concerned citizens, supported by Entre Ríos governor Jorge Busti, block the three bridges that join the province with Uruguay, protesting the construction of two paper and wood pulp factories in Fray Bentos.

28 January - Daniel Branca (b. 1951), comic artist.
24 February - Norberto Napolitano, Pappo (b. 1950), blues and rock musician.
11 June - Juan José Saer (b. 1937), novelist.
1 July - Guillermo Patricio Kelly (b. 1922), far-right militant and journalist.
31 August - Eladia Blázquez (b. 1931), tango singer and composer.
7 September - Nicolino Locche (b. 1939), boxer.
24 October - Ricardo Brinzoni (b. 1945), military officer, Argentine Army's Chief-of-staff.
20 December - Argentina Brunetti (b. 1907), actress and writer.

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