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last week followed the talks at the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in Tiquipaya, Bolivia directly from the conference website which provided streaming media reports of the major events.

I am hoping that in the future the organisers will make hard copies of audio and video recordings of all sessions available on the internet, ideally with English translations in Ogg theora file format and released under a creative commons licence on Wikipedia’s new open media website.

I am a regular listener to the ‘Democracy Now’ war and peace report, usually at breakfast time, I listen to the dulcit tones of ‘Democracy Now’ host the delightful Amy Goodman with my coffee and toast.

All last week ‘Democracy Now’ reported live on location directly from World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth, the daily reports featured so many interesting interviews and discussions during the summit. (more…)

Corporal Pablo Emilio Moncayo, after 12 years of captivity, along with Soldier Josué Daniel Calvo were released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as part of the second unilateral release of hostages announced by the insurgent group.

FARC announced its intention to unilaterally release after Pablo Emilio Moncayo. Subsequently also indicated that another soldier Josué Daniel Calvo would be released and and that they would hand over the remains of Julián Guevara, who died in captivity in January 2006.

On Friday 26 March the armed group in a new communique announced that delivery of the remains of Guevara would not take place during the weekend as scheduled due to the activities of the Colombian army in the area. However, this Tuesday, when Moncayo was received in the forest for the humanitarian mission, it also obtained the coordinates for the FARC to search for the body’s largest.

In a statement, the FARC reported that the delivery will be made personally to the representative of Colombians for Peace, Senator Córdoba and Professor Moncayo, father of former retained Pablo Emilio Moncayo, in addition to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Church and also called on all countries interested in participating in resolving the armed conflict that has continued over 50 years in the Latin American nation of Colombia. (more…)

Jason Tockman recently interviewed Pablo Solón , Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nationsm who has served as President Evo Morales’s top ambassador on trade and economic integration matters, the secretary pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and the Andean spokesperson for the “cooperation pillar” in negotiations between the Andean Community and the European Union. (more…)