President Nicolas Maduro said that the campaigns of hate against Venezuela have failed. The brazilian president Dilma Rousseff reshuffled her cabinet in a bid to apease the government coalition and to ease the approval of her fiscal reforms in congress. In Mexico, a federal judge announced a new arrest warrant for extradition to the U.S. against the Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman. The peruvian government declared a state of emergency in six provinces after protests over a chinese copper mining project left four dead. The russian defense ministry said they carried out about 20 flights over Syria.