3 January: The Assembly of theJusticialist Party, with three presidential candidates, proposes using theLey de Lemas in the main election instead of selecting one candidate in primaries. The opposition is outraged.
15 February: Worldwide protests against the imminent U.S. attack on Iraq. In Argentina, thousands demonstrate in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Santa Fe, Jujuy, Ushuaia and many other cities.
27 February: Archbishop of Santa Fe,Edgardo Gabriel Storni, is accused ofsexual abuse on a seminarist, and absolved from two previous similar accusations.
27 May: President Kirchner retires 16 Army generals, starting a renewal of the Armed Forces. He also visitsEntre Ríos and personally settles a 2-month-long teacher strike.
30 May: The government announces that road and highway concession contracts will not be renewed, and that fees and contracts of all privatized services will be revised.
June 4: In a national speech on TV, President Kirchner denounces pressure from the Supreme Court (with a majority of Justices appointed by former President Menem), refuses to "negotiate behind society's back" and asks Congress to consider impeachment of the offending Justices.
June 5: TheSIDE's files on theAMIA bombing are to be declassified.
16 June: A group of neighbors of the town ofArequito, Santa Fe assault a police station, enraged by a murder. Police and a judge are accused of disregarding that and other cases.
19 June: The retired's welfare administration, PAMI, is placed under temporal state surveillance to investigate corruption.
People attack a police station inArrecifes, Buenos Aires, for the same reasons as in Arequito three days ago.
6 August: Ablackout leaves 400,000 people without electricity in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, one after government representatives deny a petition to raise power fees. President Kirchner voices suspicion.
14 August: A judge orders the arrest of Roberto Cirilo Perdía, Fernando Hugo Vaca Narvaja andMario Eduardo Firmenich, former members of the far-leftist organizationMontoneros, accused of leading their followers into a trap in 1979.
17 August: The National Women's Meeting demonstrates inRosario, asking for free access to contraceptives and the right to abortion, and against the involvement of the Catholic Church in the issue.
23 August: Iran cuts commercial ties with Argentina over the arrest in Britain of its former ambassador, Hadi Soleimanpour, for alleged involvement in the 1994AMIA bombing.
24 August: Citizens of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires vote to elect a mayor. In the first round,Mauricio Macri gets about 4% more votes thanAníbal Ibarra, not enough to avoid a runoff.
26 August: The retired people's administrative entity, PAMI, for the first time acknowledges the pension rights of a homosexual man in cohabitation with another.
