Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - Colombia presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe Turbay, has
d!ed two months after he was sh0t in the head at a rally.
Uribe, a 39-year-old conservative senator, d!ed at a
hospital in the capital, Bogota, his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona said on
Monday, August 11.
'Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our
children,' his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, wrote in a social media post
confirming his death. 'I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without
you.'
Uribe was sh0t three times, twice in the head, while
giving a campaign speech in a park, and had remained in an intensive care unit
in serious condition with episodes of slight improvement.
A 15-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene of the June
7 attack in a working-class Bogota neighborhood and authorities have since
detained several other people.
Last month Colombian officials named the attack's mastermind
as Elder José Arteaga Hernández, known as who 'Chipi' or 'Costeño.'
Uribe had announced his intention to run for president in
2026 and had become one of leftist President Gustavo Petro's strongest critics
in Congress.
The sho0ting, which was caught on multiple videos, alarmed
Colombians who have not seen this kind of political violence against
presidential candidates since Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar declared war on
the state in the 1990s.
Uribe’s own mother, well-known journalist Diana Turbay, was
among the victims of that period when she died during a police rescue after
being kidnapped by a group of drug traffickers led by Escobar seeking to block
their extradition to the United States.
Uribe, a lawyer with a master's degree in public
administration from Harvard University, entered politics as a councilman for
Bogota when he was 26. In 2022, he was the biggest vote-getter in the
conservative Democratic Center party led by former President Alvaro
Uribe.
'Evil destroys everything,' the ex-president, who is not related to the senator, said on social media. 'They have killed hope. May Miguel’s struggle be a light that illuminates Colombia’s path.'
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