Local February 28, 2012 - 1:11 pm

Brute bodyguards mar First Lady’s campaign visit to NY

NEW YORK.- During the ruling PLD party vice presidential candidate Margarita Cedeño’s two day visit last week senior leaders complained of aggressive behavior by her security detail, with plenty of pushing and shoving and even shouted insults.

During a dinner headed by the also First Lady in New Jersey’s Hilton Hotel, with shouting matches between senior party leaders and the high ranked military.

It didn’t matter that among those present were the coordinators of the Danilo Medina-Cedeño’s campaign, diplomats, journalists, women and even children, they were all victims of the conduct by her bodyguards

Quoted by news source elnuvodiario.com.do, some of the leaders specifically blamed Army general Edison Marte Vazquez, her chief of security for the behavior.

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