Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a liberal and conservative on the Argentine centre-right.
Republican Proposal is a right-wing political party in Argentina. It is usually referred to by its abbreviation, PRO. PRO was formed as an electoral alliance in 2005, but was transformed into a national party in 2010. It is the major component of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, and its leader is former Argentine president Mauricio Macri.
Don Fulgencio is a 1950 Argentine film, directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry and starring Enrique Serrano. The film is based on various episodes revolving around the popular Argentine character Don Fulgencio, created by Lino Palacio.
Martín Lousteau is an Argentine economist and politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He is National Senator for Buenos Aires. Since 2023, he has been President of the UCR National Committee.
The 17A protests were a series of massive demonstrations in Argentina which took place on August 17, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, for several causes, among which: the defense of institutions and separation of powers, against a justice reform announced by the government, against the way quarantine was handled, the lack of liberty, the increase in theft, and a raise on state pensions.
Nicole Nau is a German dancer of Tango Argentino and Argentine folklore living in Argentina and Germany.
Federal Peronism, also known as Dissident Peronism, is the faction or branch of either moderate, centrist or right-wing Peronism, that is currently identified mostly by its opposition to Kirchnerism, the left-wing faction of Peronism.
María Eugenia Vidal is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non-Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she previously served as Social Development minister of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 she was elected deputy mayor of the city under Mauricio Macri. Since 2021, she has been a National Deputy for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.
General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on 22 November, after surprisingly close results forced a runoff. On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes. Macri's vote count of nearly 13 million votes made it the highest number of votes any candidate has ever received in Argentinian history, until Javier Milei obtained over 14 million votes in the second round of the 2023 presidential election. He took office on 10 December, making him the first freely elected president in almost a century who was not either a Radical or a Peronist.
Natalio Alberto Nisman was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the worst terrorist attack in Argentina's history. On 18 January 2015, Nisman was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires, one day before he was scheduled to report on his findings before a Congress inquiry with supposedly incriminating evidence against high-ranking officials of the then-current Argentinian government including former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, regarding the Memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta is an Argentine economist, politician and the former Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate to win a mayoral election in the first round since the adoption of Buenos Aires's autonomous constitution. He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.
Juntos por el Cambio is a political coalition in Argentina. A big tent coalition, it was created in 2015 as Cambiemos, and renamed in 2019. It is composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI and United Republicans.
Mateo Chiarino is a Uruguayan actor, writer, and director of film, stage, and television. He is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The following lists events that happened or will happen in Argentina in 2019.
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina affected the human rights situation in the country.
The Light Blue and White Union is a minor centre-right political party in Argentina. It was founded in 2007 by Argentine-Colombian businessman and former national deputy Francisco de Narváez. The party stands for economic liberalism and Federal Peronism. The party's name is a reference to the Argentine national colours.
Itai Hagman is an Argentine economist and politician who has been a National Deputy elected in the City of Buenos Aires since 2019. A member of the Patria Grande Front, Hagman was elected in the Frente de Todos list in 2019.
Avanza Libertad, originally founded in 2019 as Frente Despertar, was an Argentine right-wing political coalition. Renamed in 2020, Avanza Libertad had legal status in the Buenos Aires Province. Ideologically, it is libertarian conservative, supportive of economic liberalism, ultraconservatism, and critical of both Kirchnerism and Juntos por el Cambio. Led by José Luis Espert, is a far-right coalition, with its being compared to Spain's Vox.
Dina Esther Rezinovsky is an Argentine politician. She served as a National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital from 2019 to 2023. She is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO).
Mujer contra mujer is the second and final studio album by the pop duo formed by Argentine singers Sandra Mihanovich and Celeste Carballo, released by RCA Records and Sony BMG in October 1990. Mihanovich and Carballo had already developed successful solo careers before joining as a duo. After collaborating on a successful show in the summer of 1987, they decided to record together and released their first studio album as a duo, Somos mucho más que dos, in 1988. Around this time, Mihanovich and Carballo became romantically involved, although not publicly. Their songs included subtle references to lesbian love, and the nature of their relationship caused much speculation in the media. Before forming the duo, Mihanovich already had two popular gay anthems in her repertoire: her 1981 breakthrough single "Puerto Pollensa", and "Soy lo que soy", her 1984 Spanish-language cover of "I Am What I Am".
