January 24 - Restrictions enacted two years earlier on retail purchases ofU.S. dollars were eased following a 15% drop in theArgentine peso days earlier.[1]
March 26 - Two new terminals atBuenos Aires'Jorge Newbery Airfield, the nation's busiest airport, were inaugurated, effectively doubling the airport's passenger capacity.[3]
May 1 -Siam Di Tella's manufacturing plant in the Buenos Aires suburb ofPiñeiro, once the largest appliance factory in South America, was reopened by local household electronics maker Newsan after 28 years.[6]
May 7 - Singer/songwriterTeresa Parodi was appointed the nation's first Minister of Culture following the president's decision to promote the Culture Secretariat to a cabinet-level ministry.[7]
May 29 - An agreement was reached with theParis Club of creditor nations (the last remaining Argentine debt still in default besides bonds held by holdouts) on debt repayment totaling US$9 billion including penalties and interest.[9]
July 12 -Russian PresidentVladimir Putin andChinese General SecretaryXi Jinping made official state visits to Argentina, during which a number of significant cultural and commercial agreements were signed.[12][13]
August 30 -ARSAT-1, the firstgeostationary satellite to be fully produced domestically, was unveiled, making Argentina only of only eight countries in the world to have done so.[18]
