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Ministers from more than a dozen European and Latin American states begin meeting in Montevideo to negotiate a solution to the Venezuelan crisis as President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido clashed in Caracas over allowing humanitarian aid into the crisis-wracked country. IMAGES
The United States will use all options to free two Americans said to be detained in a failed mercenary attack in Venezuela, says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "If the Maduro regime decides to hold them, we will use every tool that we have available to try to get them back," Pompeo tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shake hands after a private meeting during the eighth annual summit of Latin American and Caribbean countries (CELAC), held on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. IMAGES
Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Hilton Todd and Venezuelan counterpart Yvan Gil meet in Brasilia to discuss the discuss the simmering crisis on their border over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo region. IMAGES
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other US officials arrive in Mexico to meet with president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador over surging migration, which has become a major political headache for President Joe Biden as he enters an election year. IMAGES
The European Union's finance ministers hold an ECOFIN meeting in Brussels expected to focus on the issues of taxation, solutions to the banking crisis and the economic impact of the war in Ukraine. IMAGES