SANTO DOMINGO.- Calling the President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe a “narco-leader,” and a promoter of this country’s rightist paramilitary groups, leaders of the Dominican leftist organizations headed a picket at noon today in front of the Foreign Ministry, where the Summit Drugs on Security, and Cooperation is being held.

The leftist leaders Narciso Isa Conde and Fernando Peña said that the event “is nothing more than a narco-summit, in which the most famous figure in drug-trafficking and the murderous paramilitary organizations is Uribe Velez,” they said in reference to Colombia’s president.

An unidentified Police official persuaded the picketers to abandon the area, not before unfolding a huge banner depicting Uribe in paramilitary garb and brandishing a weapon.