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Bush Set to Meet Uribe in Colombia

HeadlineNov 22, 2004

President Bush is scheduled to visit Colombia today to meet with President Alvaro Uribe who has been Bush’s closest ally in Latin America. Colombia is staging a massive security operation with 15,000 troops to protect Bush. Columbia is the largest recipient of US aid of any other country outside the Middle East. Congress recently voted to double the number of US troops in the country from 400 to 800.

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