The Presidential Council for Youth and Students in Venezuela today held a special session in the state of Táchira to discuss the situation in the regions bordering Colombia. The meeting was supported by President Nicolás Maduro, with the aim of taking that sector of the country to debate on the social program New Frontier of Peace, created last month, to defend the communities near to the neighboring nation of crimes such as smuggling and paramilitarism.

he Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Penny Pritzker, started a wide two-day program in Cuba, said the Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry. The worki visit includes a meeting with the minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca.