Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro renewed his call on his colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos to meet for a dialogue to resolve the border crisis. The foreign minister of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, has traveled to New York, where she will meet with the U.N secretary general Ban Ki Moon to explain why president Maduro ordered border crossings closed to control crime by colombian paramilitaries. Bolivia and Chile are both anxiously awaiting the september 24th decision of the international court of justice in the hague regarding whether it accepts to take on the case of sea access that Bolivia is demanding. Jailed former president of Guatemala Otto Perez Molina accused the United States of being behind the corruption charges laid against him. Officials in the U.S. city of Baltimore approved a 6.4-million dollar settlement to the family of Freddie Gray, the unarmed black man whose death from a spinal injury in police custody triggered protests.
