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The Clan del Golfo announces its willingness to join Total Peace in Colombia – Publimetro México
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
MADRID, 6 (EUROPA PRESS)
“After a unified consensus among the General Staff, we have contracted the professional services of lawyers and therefore conferred ample and sufficient power to advance approaches, explorations, and if necessary, legal negotiation on behalf of the General Staff of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces. of Colombia AGC”, explains the text.
The paramilitaries are thus willing to join the negotiations “that may take place” under the standards of the Political Constitution and international treaties. These lawyers “are fully empowered in everything that is directly and/or indirectly related to La Paz Total,” the statement highlights, and they state that none of them belongs or has belonged to the AGC.
In recent days, Wilmer Antonio Giraldo, alias ‘Siopas’, one of the top leaders of the criminal group, has been assassinated. Giraldo received thirteen shots to the body, his face was completely disfigured and his body was abandoned on a road in the municipality of Dabeiba, department of Antioquia.
The top leader of that criminal organization, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias ‘Otoniel’, is incarcerated in a maximum security prison in the United States.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on December 31 a ceasefire with five illegal armed organizations, including the AGC. Despite this announcement, violent incidents involving this armed group have been recorded.
“South”: Argentina and Brazil will announce studies to create a common currency for South America | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The governments of Brazil and Argentina are expected to announce next week preparations to launch a common currency project that might turn the two countries, the two largest South American economies, into the world’s second largest currency bloc.
Argentina y Brazil plan to advance in the discussions on a common South American currency in the visit of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to Buenos Aires, as confirmed by the Argentine government on Sunday, although officials and analysts do not expect it to be implemented in the short term.
“We decided to advance in the discussions on a common South American currency that can be used for both financial and commercial flows, reducing operating costs and reducing our external vulnerability”, indicates a statement from the Government of Alberto Fernández, on the occasion of the visit of Lula da Silva.
“We intend to overcome the barriers to our exchanges, simplify and modernize the rules and encourage the use of local currencies,” he adds as one of the agreements to relaunch the strategic alliance between both countries.
The plan – which will be discussed during the visit of Lula, who arrived in Argentina this Sunday and will meet with his counterpart on Monday to sign a series of agreements on different topics – includes the possibility of the common currency being extended to other countries, according to official sources.
“There will be… a decision to start studying the necessary parameters for a common currency, which includes everything from fiscal issues to the size of the economy and the role of central banks,” Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa told the newspaper. Financial Times, as published this Sunday.
As the minister added, “it would be a study of trade integration mechanisms,” although he noted that he did not want to “create false expectations” because “It is the first step of a long road that Latin America must travel.”
Announcement soon?
“We will announce the decision to start studying the necessary parameters for a common currency, which includes everything from fiscal issues to the size of the economy and the role of central banks,” announced the Argentine Economy Minister, Sergio Massa, to Financial Times.
“I do not want to create false expectations: it is the first step in a long road that Latin America must travel,” added the minister, who assured that Argentina and Brazil will invite other countries in the region to join this project, before recalling that Europe took 35 years to create the euro.
Brazil and Argentina have been discussing a common currency for years, but the talks have never come to fruition due to opposition from the Central Bank of Brazil. Under the government of the left in both countries, experts understand, in relation to Lula and the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, there is greater political support for the project.
Long term
“None of what he says are short-term measures,” the director of the Abeceb consulting firm and Minister of Production during the Mauricio Macri administration (2015-2019), Dante Sica, told EFE.
Sica recalled that during that mandate progress had been made on a letter of intent between the two countries to begin studying the possibility of having a common currency through a program with the Inter-American Development Bank, and that it was the Brazilian central bank that stopped the initiative. .
According to Sica, “the resistance of the central bank of Brazil is strong” because Argentina has an inflation of 94.8% in 2022 and the private ones project 98.4% in 2023, according to the expectations surveyed by the Argentine Central Bank, and “It does not have a consistent program to lower long-term inflation.”
“The currency as a whole is built with a high level of confidence, established macroeconomic policies, and similar inflation ranges,” added Sica, since inflation of 4.8% is projected in Brazil in 2023.
Alternatives
As an intermediate path, Sica indicated that a currency swap might be enabled, which both Administrations have been negotiating since last year. In this way, instead of doing a daily balance to see which country puts up the dollars to liquidate exports, it would be done every six months.
“That is financing, it is not a single currency,” Sica clarified, so both countries must agree on an interest rate.
In the same sense, the general director of DNI Consultores, Marcelo Elizondo, explained to EFE that Massa’s team is talking regarding a common currency project for commercial exchanges between companies from the two countries.
“It is a currency in which the peso and the real would be quoted and that would be used to pay for the transactions of the companies of the two countries so as not to depend on the dollar,” Elizondo explained, indicating that this new currency would be like a “nomenclator with conversion to national currencies.
Similarly, Elizondo explained that “it requires the coordination of the two countries and the two central banks,” noting that the Brazilian is autonomous but the Argentine is dependent on the Executive Power.
In addition, transactions between individuals from the two countries would require “an agile response” from the two central banks to cover what was previously done via the dollar, which implies “giving in” to the policy of restrictions on imports and the delivery of goods. currencies to pay for foreign purchases applied by Argentina due to the lack of international reserves.
Brazil is Argentina’s main trading partner, which closed the commercial relationship with the neighboring country with a deficit of 2.25 billion dollars in 2022, although less than the average of 3.5 billion dollars recorded between 2004 and 2018, according to Abeceb.
The return of Lula da Silva to power -following former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) had a bad relationship with the Fernández government- has raised expectations of deepening the bilateral relationship between Argentina and Brazil, but economists highlight the power of Brazilian institutions.
Juan Fernando Quintero and Gustavo Cuéllar on the radar of Inter Porto Alegre | Colombians Abroad
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
December 31, 2022 passed, and the year 2023 began with uncertainty for Juan Fernando Quintero. The date he had to sign his renewal with River Plate passed, and, although it seemed that everything was done for Juan Fernando to extend his contract with the Argentine club, his future took a turn that has not yet come to fruition, since there is no certainty of what may be the next team for the Antioquian.
Juan Fernando Quintero is wanted by Flamengo, current champion of the Copa Conmebol Libertadores, of Major League Soccer and also with the possibility of returning to Colombia. But, to date, three days following completing his contract with River Plate and being released, there have been more obstacles for the future of the Antioquian.
Flamengo, who also seemed to speed up the negotiations with Juan Fernando Quintero, stopped due to a problem that they see him hiring the Colombian. Although he was one of the fundamental pieces for Marcelo Gallardo, and had the confidence of the Argentine in River Plate in the last rounds of the Argentine League, the Brazilians think that Juan Fernando’s physical condition should be reviewed, a problem that would condition the Antioquian to the future. However, he improved a lot in that component, despite suffering an injury that took him out of competition for two months or so.
Apart from the issue of physical condition, Flamengo, which let the talks cool down, the Brazilian club accelerated the signing of Gerson, an attacking midfielder that they sold for 25 million euros to Olympique de Marseille and 18 months later they signed him for 20 million euros. Do they close the door upon the arrival of Juan Fernando Quintero? Well, that possibility of signing with Fla little by little is fading away, although it is Vitor Pereira’s wish. However, he would not be the only option in Brazilian soccer.
And it is that, there is another historical team from Brazil that is behind Juan Fernando Quintero, and not only from Antioquia, since Juan Fernando would not arrive alone. They also want, and in fact, the Brazilian press mentions that they have already entered into conversations with Gustavo Cuéllar who remains a fundamental piece in Al Hilal who must now stop David Ospina and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia football.
According to Globo Esporte, Inter de Porto Alegre, which also wants to counteract its backyard rival, Gremio de Porto Alegre, which signed Luis Alberto Suárez, will seek in the coming days to close the signing of Juan Fernando Quintero and try to bring football from Saudi Arabia to Gustavo Cuéllar. The operation with Quintero would be easier, since he is a free player, while with Cuéllar they would have to negotiate with the Al Hilal club.
Gustavo Cuéllar, who had already played in Brazil with Flamengo, might have his second adventure in Brazilian territory. Globo Esporte mentions that Mano Menezes wants Cuéllar, “it is a request from coach Mano Menezes. Inter already had a conversation with the player, presented his values and project and received a positive sign to move forward. A proposal to the Saudi club”, mentioned the sports media. In addition, they added that “Inter would be willing to wait until the middle of the year, with the departure following a friendly negotiation.”