Al Gore In The News. Update: The US Senate freezes military funding to Colombia.

My favorite vice president changed his mind about attending an environmental conference here in South Florida. Alvaro Uribe is President Bush's closest Latin American ally.

Gore's office informed conference organizers that he "would not attend the event because he could not share the stage with the president of Colombia after the political debates in Colombia against the Uribe Velez family and against the president," Uribe said in the hastily called news conference at the presidential palace.

It's a big deal in Colombia. The Colombian tv networks even suspended their scheduled novelas. I'll ask my very politically astute Colombian students about it on Monday.  ¶ 11:24 AM