The guatemalan congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of stripping president Otto Perez Molina of immunity to face trial for corruption. In China, president Nicolas Maduro signed a 5-billion-dollar loan with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing. The secretary-general of the union of south american nations or UNASUR, Ernesto Samper, announced a proposal to create a human rights commission to monitor the situation at the border between Venezuela and Colombia. A new protest took place in Peru condemning the increase of us military presence in the country. The Soyuz Tma-18m space ship carrying three astronauts blasted off from the launch pad in Kazakhstan.
