In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro condemned U.S. sanctions against his country after meeting with UNASUR Secretary-General Ernesto Samper in Caracas. In Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto has come under fire for the security reform he announced in response to the violent attack on the 43 Ayotzinapa students. In Honduras, the government and representatives of the world bank met to sign deals allowing foreign companies to mine in the country. The Interior Ministries of Ecuador and Peru are working together to fight the flow of human trafficking across their shared border. In the UK, the price of the siege of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London hit 15 million U.S. Dollars.