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Argentina , officially the Argentine ___MASK94___ , is a federal ___MASK94___ in the southern half of South America . Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor Chile to the west , the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north , Brazil to the northeast , Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east , and the Drake Passage to the south . With a mainland area of , Argentina is the eighth - largest country in the world , the second largest in Latin America , and the largest Spanish - speaking one . The country is subdivided into twenty - three provinces ( singular " provincia ") and one autonomous city (" ciudad autónoma "), Buenos Aires , which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress . The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions , but exist under a federal system . Felisa Miceli ( born September 26 , 1952 ) is an Argentine economist , and a former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina . She was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on November 28 , 2005 , in place of Roberto Lavagna , and was the first woman ever to lead that ministry . She resigned to the position on July 16 , 2007 , as prosecutors stepped up an investigation into a bag of cash found in her ministry offices . The ___MASK39___ , or PJ , is a Peronist political party in Argentina , and the largest component of the Peronist movement . Néstor Carlos Kirchner ( 25 February 195027 October 2010 ) was an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and as Governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003 . Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat , he served as President of the ___MASK39___ from 2008 to 2010 , with his political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism . Kirchnerism ( Spanish : " kirchnerismo ") is an Argentinian political group formed by the supporters of the late Néstor Kirchner , president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 , and of his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , president from 2007 until 2015 . Although the Kirchners are members of the ___MASK39___ ( the original , official and largest Peronist party , founded by Juan Perón in 1947 ), Peronism itself is a broad movement , and many Peronists oppose them (" Anti - Kirchnerist Peronism ").