Gore avoids Uribe

Al Gore has withdrawn from an environmental forum in Miami to avoid being seen with Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe. Uribe has been accused of contributing to rightist militias. Gore's decision not to attend has come as the new, Democrat-controlled Congress has been scrutinizing Uribe's performance with human rights. This week the U.S. Senate froze $55 million of military aid to Colombia after accusations that their head of armed forces collaborated with death squads. To read more, see: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/20/colombia.gore.ap/index.html.