Weekly summary: CFK confirmed that she will not be a candidate; Massa announced new economic measures; coverage of the Gardel and more

The week started with new announcements from the Ministry of Economy, headed by Sergio Massa, to try to curb inflation that in April climbed to 8.4%. From the Economy Ministry, they promoted a battery of measures aimed at stabilizing the dollar, raising the interest rate to make peso placements more attractive and maintaining the level of consumption and the level of activity. The announcements will continue during these weeks, as revealed today Economy, the limit of credit cards will be increased. The measures respond to the fact that for the moment inflation expectations continue to rise, to the point that some private projections place inflation in May above those of last month. At the political level, the national agenda was shaken by the letter of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who last Tuesday ratified that she would not be a candidate for president, as she had announced on December 6 after being convicted in the first instance in the case mediatized as vialidad. “I’m not going to be a mascot of power,” he said. After publishing her letter stepping aside in this year’s elections, the Vice President gave a report to C5N, after six years without giving interviews to Argentine media, the last time was in 2017 with Gerardo Rozín when she was campaigning as a candidate for senator for the province of Buenos Aires. There, he asked that the children of the decimated generation “take the post.” This Friday, Juan Grabois launched as a pre-candidate for president at the Ferro stadium and in line with Cristina’s statements, he said: “The children of the decimated generation are going to take the post, together with the shirtless and the new Argentina. We are going to guarantee a transformative and revolutionary government program.” At the political level, the agenda was completed with the definitions of the Court regarding the elections in Tucumán, which after Juan Manzur declined his candidacy for vice governor, lifted the precautionary measure and the governor of Tucumán signed the decree for the elections to be held on June 11. Meanwhile, the main leaders of the opposition, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich, agreed that the candidacies of the city of Buenos Aires will be settled in polls, currently the candidates for the PRO are Jorge Macri and Fernán Quirós, both officials of the city government, who in the PASO must go to an internal with the candidates of Together for Change: the radical Martín Lousteau, the leader of United Republicans Ricardo López Murphy, and the deputy Graciela Ocaña for Public Trust. The former Minister of Security of the Nation and pre-candidate for president for Together for Change, also defined that her candidate for governor of the province of Buenos Aires will be the current mayor of Lanús Néstor Grindetti. In addition, this week there was an active judicial agenda in cases of public interest. The day of debate over the Monte Massacre ended and the popular jury found the four accused policemen guilty. Rubén Alberto García and Leandro Ecilape for the crime of “aggravated homicide for the abuse of the police function or position, and for being committed by means of a firearm” and Mariano Ibáñez and Manuel Monreal, were convicted of the crime of “attempted homicide aggravated by the abuse of the police function or position, and for being committed by means of a firearm”. In the coming days, Judge Carolina Crispiani, in charge of the Oral Criminal Court number 4 of La Plata, will give the final sentence. However, there are still 19 other police officers charged with cover-up charges in the case who are still awaiting trial. This Tuesday, they also decided to sentence Marcelo Villalba to life imprisonment for the femicide of Anahí Benítez. The Oral Criminal Court 7 of Lomas de Zamora convicted the accused for the homicide and sexual abuse of the 16-year-old girl in 2017.In the trial for the femicide of Natalia Melmann, after 22 years they sentenced Ricardo Panadero to life imprisonment as a co-author of the crimes of “aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty, aggravated sexual abuse and double aggravated homicide, for the premeditated collaboration of two or more persons and for being committed to ensure impunity.” In addition, this week Filo.news made a special coverage of the Gardel Awards, Patito Festa was on the red carpet with the main artists and Julio Leiva interviewed Trueno after winning the Gardel de Oro. And as if that were not enough, Filo.news put together a Vlog of the Gardel Awards 2023 with everything you saw and what you did not see of the most important awards ceremony in Argentine music: interviews, backstage and more. And as if that were not enough, I alsoWe were at the “Sauce Boyz Fest” festival in Puerto Rico, organized by Eladio Carrión where Bizarrap, Duki, Mike Towers, Wiz Khalifa and more played. In addition, the U-20 World Cup started where yesterday Argentina debuted with a 2-1 win over Uzbekistan. And Mascherano celebrated having started the sporting event with a comeback. 

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