Piura, April 1 (RHC)-- The Cuban contingent of the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade began Saturday to provide assistance to victims of heavy rains and floods in the Peruvian city of Piura, one of the areas hardest hit by the natural disaster associated with the El Niño phenomenon.

San José - The commitment to integration and the Mesoamerica Project were strengthened by the 16th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Coordination, which concluded yesterday in Costa Rica.

United Nations- The United States took on the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council amid some expectations on US aboutface for the organization, including on the budget sector.

The death toll increased to 90 people dead as a consequence of the intense rains in Peru. The last storm has left up to 20 missing people, 347 wounded ones, nearly 120.000 victims and 742.00 affected ones, according to the local Minister of Defense, Jorge Nieto.

Caracas - Venezuelan sectors are insisting on dialogue as an alternative to the confrontation that seems to favor groups opposed to the government of constitutional president Nicolás Maduro.

Brasilia - European Union (EU) Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, will investigate here the measures taken by Brazil to improve the instruments of health control in the production of meat and its derivatives.