Regional leaders have arrived in Venezuela for the ninth Petrocaribe summit, launched by former Venezuela president Hugo Chavez. Also in Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro marked two years since the passing of former President Hugo Chavez through a state function at the site where the late revolutionary's remains are housed. In Havana, senior colombian military commanders met with FARC guerrillas to talk about conditions for a bilateral ceasefire. Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown, the black teen who was killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, said they will file a civil suit. Leaks from Edward Snowden revealed that New Zealand is conducting mass surveillance over its pacific neighbors.
