Justicialism will have two electoral fronts in the elections for partial renewal of the provincial Legislature. The governor, meanwhile, consolidated his space ECO + Vamos Corrientes and everything suggests that he will strengthen his position in the territory

Yesterday, Tuesday , the deadline for the registration of the electoral fronts that will compete on June 11 in the renewal of the Legislature and deliberative councils of 64 Corrientes municipalities that adhered to the provincial electoral process expired.

There will be three fronts that will compete to keep the provincial legislative positions in dispute: 15 deputies and 5 senators . The main one is ECO (Encuentro por Corrientes) + Vamos Corrientes, the alliance that hegemonizes radicalism with Governor Gustavo Valdés as the main figure. In front will be the divided justicialismo : on the one hand the Frente de Todos (FdT) and on the other Ganemos Corrientes.

The province has a complex voting system . The electoral fronts do not unify the ballot, but each party that integrates it presents its own ballot with the candidacies of the space. At the time of scrutiny, they act as collectors for the alliance they make up. For this reason, on voting Sunday, close to a million people from Corrientes will find themselves in the dark room with almost 60 ballots : 32 will be from ECO + Vamos Corrientes, 22 from FdT and 5 from Ganemos Corrientes.

The ruling party will renew 10 seats in Deputies and three in the Senate , while the opposition will dispute 5 and two, respectively. There are also some 145 places to renew in the local deliberative councils.

The names that will embody the candidacies will be known on April 22 when the deadline for registration with the Corrientes Electoral Justice expires. However, there are certain clues that it could happen: former governor Ricardo Colombi will surely seek to repeat as senator. The same will happen with his bench pair Sergio "Checho" Flinta and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Pedro "Perucho" Cassani. They all wear white berets.

In the pro-government bunker there is tranquility. They aspire from a minimum to keeping two thirds in the Legislature and, from a maximum, to further increase parliamentary representation. This will have national and local political consequences. Valdés is shaping up to be a leader with regional weight in national radicalism and, on the other hand, the path would be clear for the election of executive positions in 2025 .

An open internal

The Corrientes Justicialista Party has been intervened for years. In charge of the process is the Buenos Aires mayor of Hurlingham, Juan Horacio "Juanchi" Zabaleta . After the meager result of 2021 —Valdéz was re-elected with 77% of the votes—, he had to overcome internal questions in this instance to put together a front that can compete against the ruling party.

"The closing of alliances was the result of work that involved a lot of dialogue and continuing to think about proposing an alternative that would improve the lives of the people of Corrientes," Zabaleta explained to Infobae .

Then, he announced that the candidacies that the Frente de Todos will present "will be representative of the unity and breadth that was achieved on this front."

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"We are confident that we will achieve good results because the Front expresses the need of many sectors of Corrientes society to overcome a stage where many Corrientes have suffered for years," he added.

There was a sector that was opened from this assembly. It is under the baton of Parlasur deputy Alejandro Karlen , a leader in direct dialogue with President Alberto Fernández who tried in any case to divert Zabaleta from the intervention.

Karlen put together “Ganemos Corrientes”. He tried to add former lieutenant governor Gustavo Canteros to the space , but the former teacher union leader preferred to remain within the Frente de Todos, which he joined after leaving ECO.

“Peronism needs to come out of resignation. They want to force us to accept what they impose on us and that is not the Peronism for which I militated all my life," said the Mercosur parliamentarian in dialogue with this medium.

“Peronists not only have ideas but we have faith. We have confidence in our movement and in being able to overcome the worst crises. I know what and how to do it and I have the courage to do it”, Karlen concluded .

Before the cycle of negotiations with the ELN in Cuba, it is convenient to review its legal support, Law 2272 of 2022, by which "the State peace policy is defined", since it authorizes the Government to advance "Negotiations with groups armed groups organized outside the law with whom dialogues of a political nature are carried out”, a definition that has to do with the self-perception of the ELN and the ceasefire.

The ELN perceives itself as a regular army on equal terms with the Public Force, and it is not. In a recent statement, the COCE demands that its "military actions" be analyzed in the same way that the operations of government forces are analyzed," while Law 2272 makes it clear that political recognition to negotiate does not "legalize" the ELN, which continues to be an outlaw group.

Thus, in the same way that the Roundtable does not erase the illegality of the ELN, neither does it erase the constitutional legitimacy of the Public Force or its obligations to protect the lives and liberties of Colombians.

The ELN does not understand it that way, which separates its "military actions" against the Public Force, for them legitimate, and which they hope to limit in the Mesa ceasefire, from their illegal activities harassing society, which are not refer, as if they did not exist.

In fact, while the agenda includes the "cease of fire and hostilities", both in the Table and in its public statements, the latter are "invisible" and the conflict seems to be reduced to legitimate responses to "the parastatal offensive."

In the editorial of the magazine "Insurrección", Antonio García affirms without embarrassment that "While the Roundtable is active (...) the Military Forces maintain an offensive against the ELN, (...) acting jointly with narco-paramilitary forces." – What an anachronism! -, to conclude that, "...as long as there is no cessation and we continue to be attacked, we have the right to defend ourselves and to act in response."

And while this is how they justify their violence against the Public Force, their harassment of society..., not a word, despite being a "System of Subjugation" from which not even the local authorities escape. However, the hostilities (murder, kidnapping, extortion, illegal mining, etc.) are illegal activities that, by constitutional mandate, must be prosecuted by the Public Force, but this persecution is classified by the ELN as attacks to which they have the right to respond, in a hellish vicious circle of violence.

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I insist; without a cessation of hostilities there can be no ceasefire. An agreement that leaves the Public Force with its hands tied against illegality does not pass a constitutional test, nor does it pass the test of a society overwhelmed by violence.

Los Angeles (AFP) – Two of the busiest ports in the United States closed on Friday because not enough stevedores showed up for work, a shipping representative announced.

The closure in the western state of California is part of a long dispute between shipping companies and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) focused on wages and job automation.

"The largest local ILWU chapter on the West Coast took joint action to retain labor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which has led to widespread labor shortages," a statement from the Maritime Association of the United States said. Pacific, the group that represents carriers.

"The workers who did show up for work were released because the full staff of ILWU members were not there to operate the terminals," the note added.

The carriers specified that the union's action resulted in the closure "in effect of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest gateway for maritime commerce in the United States."

But the ILWU insisted that the only ones not showing up for work were those who observed Good Friday for religious practice.

"Cargo operations continue while port operators remain at their jobs," the union said in a statement.

The two ports, known as the San Pedro Bay Port Complex, move some 20 million containers of goods worth more than $300 billion each year.

The complex is the ninth largest port in the world by market share, according to port figures, and plays a key role in keeping global supply chains moving.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, ports around the world were clogged as carriers struggled to keep up with demand for goods, a problem that persisted as countries reopened their borders and businesses.

Economists say slow shipment backlogs have contributed to the inflation that has dominated much of the world for the past 18 months as consumers demand products that don't arrive fast enough.

The stars are aligning in favor of a popular forex trade that benefits from attractive returns and low volatility, even as markets emerge from one of the most turbulent months in years.

Signs that the US economy is slowing and global interest rates are peaking are setting the stage for investors to revive so-called carry trades in emerging markets: borrowing in lower-priced currencies. yield to buy those that offer higher yields.

With the International Monetary Fund predicting that developing economies, particularly in Asia, will be a bright spot even as the US slows, the right ingredients for the strategy to succeed finally appear to be in place for the first time in years.

A Bloomberg gauge of borrowing dollars and putting the funds into a basket of emerging currencies has returned almost 5% this year, rebounding from three years of losses and hitting the highest level since 2021 as fears of a banking crisis, which started in the US, boosted bets that the Federal Reserve is near the end of its tightening cycle.

"Counterintuitively, the March episode of financial market volatility could be the ticket to revive emerging market carry trades," said Eimear Daly, emerging markets strategist at NatWest Markets Plc in London. "Now that the US carry is likely to be constrained, investors will be tempted to return to high-carry emerging market currencies, with significant carry-on bidding," he added.

Interest in carry trades has picked up as rapid policy tightening by major central banks appears all but over amid growth concerns. That has been enough to build confidence in the strategy despite the presence of volatility in the currency markets that can alter potential returns.

“Emerging market foreign currency yields hold up well in US-centric recessions, and carry strategies are starting to look interesting again,” Citigroup Inc. strategists, including Adam Pickett, wrote in a note. note Thursday. "Fixed income and EM equities could still struggle and Emfx might be a better place to hide."

Trades financed in dollars with money put into the currencies of Hungary, Colombia and Mexico have returned more than 6% this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Seventeen of the 23 emerging market currencies tracked have returned positively so far in 2023, while most have lost money last year, according to data through Thursday.

first movers

Several emerging market currencies are particularly attractive carry targets as their central banks raised interest rates to combat inflation ahead of their developed peers.

“Most EM countries have raised rates significantly, many started before the Fed and raised more, so a lot of EM yields are attractive,” said Rajeev De Mello, global macro portfolio manager at Gama Asset . Management SA in Geneva. Attractive target currencies for carry trades include those of Brazil, Mexico, India, the Czech Republic and Poland, he said.

Brazil's central bank started raising rates as early as March 2021 and continued to raise a combined 1,175 basis points to the current level of 13.75%. The national Selic rate offers an 875 basis point premium over the Fed's benchmark index, a sizeable cushion to offset any potential weakness in the Brazilian real.

Benchmark rates in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile are all at 7% or higher, well above current expectations that Fed rates will peak near 5%, based on overnight index swaps. USA

alleviating volatility

While fluctuations in the currency markets spiked last month amid fears of a banking crisis, it is starting to slow again, becoming less of a threat to would-be carry traders.

A JPMorgan Chase & Co. index of one-month implied volatility in emerging market currencies fell to 9.9% this month, from a high of 11.1% in mid-March when banking tensions were rising. A corresponding gauge of volatility in the G7 currencies decreased to 10.1% from 11.7%.

The level of the two indicators is now about equal after the emerging markets index was twice its peer at the end of 2021, a reflection of currency volatility caused last year by developed market central banks.

divergent growth

Emerging markets are poised to maintain their interest rate advantage over the US if economic growth prospects hold up.

US growth will slow to 1.4% this year and then to 1% in 2024, according to International Monetary Fund projections released in January. By comparison, growth in emerging markets as a whole will accelerate to 4% in 2023 and then to 4.2% next year, IMF figures show.

The IMF is expected to release its latest forecasts this week amid signs that the global economy is slowing.

“Our baseline scenario is a mild recession in the US and a range-bound dollar, which should support the EM carry trade,” said Jon Harrison, managing director of EM macro strategy at TS Lombard in London. The main targets for emerging market carry trades appear to be the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso, as these will be supported by proactive central banks and relatively high real interest rates, he said.

Ukraine will stop exporting grains and oilseeds to Poland, given the destabilization of the Polish market caused by the massive arrival of grains from its neighbor, the Agriculture ministries of both countries reported this Friday (04.07.2023). The agreement excludes the export of these products to third countries via Poland.   

Ukraine was forced to seek alternative outlets for its agricultural products due to the blockade of its Black Sea ports since the start of the Russian invasion. But due to logistical problems, the product piled up in silos in Poland and other countries, causing a collapse in prices, as well as protests that on Wednesday led to the resignation of the Polish agriculture minister.

"The Ukrainian side will refrain, until next season, from exporting [to Poland] wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds," said the new minister, Robert Telus ( main photo) .

His Ukrainian counterpart, Mycola Solsky, announced that the two countries will develop mechanisms next week to "limit exports that can only be carried out with prior agreement from the Polish side."  

On March 31, five Central European countries - Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria - urged the European Commission to agree additional aid to farmers in the countries most affected by imports from Ukraine. (AFP)

The CDMX of the 23rd century will be the city of hypercolors, a bustling metropolis of incredible architecture, food and culture transformed by Artificial Intelligence that will expand the urban landscape upwards, with suspended restaurants and glittering papel picado floating between the skyscrapers.

That's the vision held, at least, by Johnnie Walker and renowned digital artist, Luke Halls , who have created a groundbreaking collection (Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities of the Future 2220) that imagines what the capital of the future will look like in 200 years. country and some of the main cities on the planet such as London, Hainan, Taipei, Seoul, Sydney, Bangkok, Berlin, Singapore and, why not, even Mars.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities of the Future 2220

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities of the Future 2220 is a collection of 10 limited-edition designs envisioning a prosperous and vibrant future society that has transformed urban landscapes and skylines, embracing new scientific developments to push the boundaries of the possible.

“The idea of ​​continued collective progress in the world is something that really fires my imagination; I love that Johnnie Walker has such a progressive vision. That's why it's interesting for me to think about how these cities could be in the future. what i

Excited is the prospect of bringing this to life with the same dedication to craft that the team brings to Johnnie Walker Blue Label,” Luke Halls commented on their collaboration.

In the illustration for Mexico City, citizens can choose to get around in autonomous electric cars and taxis or take to the skies in the flying boats of Xochimilco to relax and enjoy the impressive views on offer.

“Johnnie Walker's path spans over 200 years, ever since those early days when John Walker founded and first opened the doors of a small grocery store in rural Scotland in 1820 we have looked to the future defiantly, with a firm belief in progress and this new edition of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities of the Future reveals our shared, positive and hopeful vision of how we will see Mexico two centuries from now,” said Renata Delsordo, Director of Reserve, the portfolio of brands Diageo luxury .

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Cities of the Future 2220 is a limited edition of 3,000 bottles, which can be purchased at select department stores, price clubs, specialty stores and self-service stores; In addition, this edition invites you to discover the extraordinary taste of the maximum expression of whiskey while being transported to the future by scanning an NFC on the front of the bottle.

Holiday obliges, a whole series of shops and services will be closed this Monday.

Supermarkets

The Aldi, Lidl, Cora, Makro, Okay and Colruyt brands will be closed in particular. To do your shopping, you will have to go to the stores usually open on Sundays and public holidays. Intermarché stores will be open, according to  adapted hours, to be checked online.  

Some Delhaize and Carrefour will open their doors this Monday, like a Sunday. Some Spar will also be open, their schedules are also to be checked on the brand's website.

Services

Like any other public holiday, banks will remain closed on Monday. The same for municipal administrations. Bpost offices will also be inaccessible this Monday ; there will also be no mail delivery.

Pharmacies will also keep their doors closed; if necessary, you will have to find the duty pharmacy closest to you .

Shopping centres, major food chains, discount stores… Which stores will be open on Easter Monday (Monday April 10, 2023) in the Oise ? Here is the list and with the schedules.

Shopping centers in the department

• Beauvais, Jeu de Paume shopping center (closed)
• Compiègne, Carrefour Venette shopping center (9am-8pm)
• Nogent-sur-Oise, Auchan shopping center (8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
• Chambly, shopping center Chambly Les Portes de l'Oise (nc)
• Chambly, E.Leclerc Les Hauts Vents shopping center (closed)
• Beauvais, Carrefour shopping center (nc)
• Compiègne, Marché aux Herbes shopping center (nc)
• Saint-Maximin, Saint Max Avenue shopping center (open)
• Saint-Maximin, Cora shopping center (closed)

Auchan (hypermarkets and supermarkets)

• Beauvais (9am-7pm)
• Breuil-le-Vert (8h30-12h30)
• Chantilly (closed)
• Meru (9am-2pm)
• Creil – Nogent-sur-Oise (8h30-19h)
• Noyon (8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
• Compiègne (8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Formerie (8h30-12h30)

Carrefour (hypermarkets) 

• Compiègne Venette (9am-8pm)
• Beauvais-Sud (9am-7pm)
• Beauvais Center (closed)

E.Leclerc

• Beauvais (closed)
• Saint-Just-en-Chaussée (closed)
• Breteuil (closed)
• Lacroix-Saint-Ouen (9am-6.30pm)
• Thiverny-Montataire (8h45-13h45)
• Ribécourt-Dreslincourt (closed)
• Chambly (closed)
• Cauffry (8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
• Le Plessis-Belleville (8h30-13h)
• Trie-Château (9am-6pm)
• Pont-Sainte-Maxence (8h30-13h)

Intermarché

• Angry (8 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
• Beauvais North (nc)
• Bresles (9h-12h30)
• Cauffry (9h-12h30)
• Clermont (nc)
• Compiègne (9am-7pm)
• Crépy-en-Valois (8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.)
• Fitz-James (8:30am-6pm)
• Goincourt (closed)
• Gouvieux (9h-12h30)
• Grandvilliers (8h-13h)
• Hermes (9am-12.30pm)
• Lamorlaye (9h-12h45)
• Margny-lès-Compiègne (9h-12h30)
• Marseille-en-Beauvaisis (8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Moyvillers (9h-12h30)
• Nanteuil-Le-Haudouin (9h-12h30)
• Noyon (8h30-12h30)
• Orry-la-Ville (9h-12h30)
• Pont-Sainte-Maxence (8.30am-12.30pm)
• St. Paul (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Senlis (9h-12h15)
• Trosly-Breuil (9h-12h)
• Villers Saint-Paul (9h-12h30)

U Store (Super U)

• Sainte-Geneviève (9am-7pm)
• Thourotte (8h30-13h)

Kora

• Cora Creil – Saint-Maximin Shopping Center (closed)

noz

• Allonne (10am-6pm)
• Tillé-Beauvais (10am-6pm)
• Chambly (10am-6pm)
• Montataire (10 a.m.-6 p.m.)
• Neuilly-sous-Clermont (10am-6pm)
• Noyon

If your store is not listed, the opening information was probably not provided. However, it can be opened.

Employees of Elon Musk's company will have released videos and personal images captured by Tesla cars. Some videos contained scenes of nudity, children and accidents.

A California citizen who owns a Tesla car sued Elon Musk's company on Friday, accusing it of violating its customers' privacy. The collective action advanced after, on Thursday, Reuters reported that multiple images captured by Tesla cars were distributed by company employees for their entertainment.

The images and videos distributed internally by Tesla employees were recorded between 2019 and 2022, and in them it is possible to see , according to Reuters, nude scenes, children and videos of accidents and altercations on the road . Some of the videos also showed the inside of owners' garages, as well as the objects stored there . The plaintiff, a Model Y owner named Henry Yeh of San Francisco, claimed that employees accessed the footage for "their sadistic and unfunny entertainment" and for the "humiliation of those who were artfully recorded." According to the injured party, explains the Washington Post, the recordings and captured images were also subject to jokes in chat groups .

That these types of videos and images have been made available for Tesla employees to view and share, willingly and for inappropriate purposes, affects anyone with a Tesla, their families, passengers, and even guests in their homes.” complaint filed by Henry Yeh.

California citizen attorney Jack Fitzgerald explained to Reuters that Tesla " needs to be held accountable for these [privacy] invasions and for misrepresenting its privacy policies to him [Henry Yeh] and other Tesla owners."

The process filed by the California citizen extends to any individual who has owned or leased a Tesla within the past four years . The aim is to force the company to compensate its customers for part or all of the cost of their vehicles — the exact amount would be set by a court of law. In addition, Tesla must "stop recording, observing and sharing" images captured by car cameras and must destroy the data obtained by violating the privacy law.

In its privacy policy, Tesla writes that “ recordings with the cameras remain anonymous ” and are not related to the owner or his vehicle. If users consent to the sharing of data, still according to the company's privacy policy, Tesla will use this information to communicate with consumers, perform business services and improve its products - a policy that, according to the process presented by Henry Yeh , was violated by the company.

According to the city hall, the city is facing a wave of robberies related to the two brands, after a challenge launched on TikTok went viral.

New York - The mayor of New York , Eric Adams , announced on Friday, the 7th, that the city will file a lawsuit against Korean automakers Kia and Hyundai for not having anti-theft technology, which led to the increase in thefts of these cars in the United States .

According to a press release from the mayor, the process aims to "hold both companies accountable for refusing to equip certain models of their cars with anti-theft instruments".

Mayor Adams noted that because stolen cars don't have enough anti-theft devices, the city faced an 890% increase in Kia thefts at the end of last year and a 766% increase in Hyundai thefts in previous months.

"We are not going to stand by while automakers turn a blind eye to security and make it easy for criminals to take advantage of New Yorkers," he said.

For his part, the city's legal director, Hinds Radix, emphasized that the public safety crisis in the city is increasing due to the "irresponsible business practices" of automakers.

He pointed out that those who commit these robberies often use their cars for other crimes. "This is a huge concern for us, and we are taking steps to end it," he said.

free locks

In a statement sent to the NBC television network, Hyundai said it is "committed to ensuring the quality and integrity of our products". According to the automaker, engine immobilizers have been standard on all vehicles since November 2021, and a free software update has been made available to prevent this type of theft.

The company also said it will refund any customer who has already purchased a steering wheel lock, and that it "continues to provide free steering wheel locks nationwide." Kia did not respond to the TV report's request. / EFE

The Czechs are reviving a very old Easter tradition: that of wooden noisemakers.

Participants, dressed in black outfits and white masks, march through the southern town of Ceske Budejovice.

From Thursday to Holy Saturday, they march in procession, armed with large and noisy rattles, to replace the bells and announce the Angelus. This particular noise aims to chase away evil spirits and bring joy and hope!

It was Vita Marsik, director, who introduced this practice to Ceske Budejovice years ago. At the time, he was only accompanied by a small handful of friends. For him, Passion Week is above all a time of meditation and prayer.

During the march, the cross of Jesus is carried. It is a symbol that denounces human faults such as hatred, laziness and envy. This very special day ends in the square where the crucifixes are erected in memory of the Stations of the Cross.

This tradition, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is also present in certain towns in eastern France!