Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has announced the fourth minimum wage in 2015. In Guatemala, jailed former president Otto Perez accused the U.S. of coercing a U.N. investigative group to involve him in a corruption scandal. In Mexico, U.S. secretary of homeland security Jeh Johnson discussed shared security and commercial interests with his mexican colleague Enrique Peña Nieto. Thousands of palestinians have poured into the streets of the west bank to protest israeli forces' homicidal repression. Chinese president Xi Jinping said his government will lift all its 70 million people living beneath the poverty line to safety over the next five years..
