Colombian Senator And Presidential Hopeful Dies 2 Months After Shooting
Bogota, Colombia (AP) – A Colombian senator and presidency hopeful Shoot at a political rally He recalled that some of the country’s darkest parts of drug -fuel violence in June died on Monday.
Family Miguel Uibe Turbay He said his politician died in a hospital in Bogota, the capital. 39 -year -old Uibe was hit by a campaign in a park three times, twice, and since then, he has been in a serious intensive care unit with his slight improvement sections.
His wife María Claudia Tarazona wrote in a social media article that confirms his death, “Lie in peace, the love of my life. I will take care of our children.” “I want God to show a way to learn to live without you.”
A young suspect was arrested in a June 7 attack in a working class Bogota neighborhood. The authorities then detained several people, but did not set the hitting or why.
The shooting, which was caught in more than one video, worried the Colombians who had not seen such political violence against presidential candidates. Medellin Drug Lord Pablo Escobar In the 1990s, he declared war on the state.
Uribe’s own mother, well -known journalist Diana Turbay was among the victims of that period. During a police rescue, a group of drugs died after being kidnapped by a group of drug smugglers, where Escobar tried to block their extraditions to the United States.
“If my mother was willing to give her life for a purpose, how can I not do the same in life and politics?” Urib, who was only 5 years old when his mother was killed, said in an interview with a Colombian news output last year.
Uribe, a lawyer with a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, entered politics as a parliamentary member for Bogota at the age of 26. Former President álvaro Uibe.
“Evil destroys everything,” the former president, who is not related to the senator, said on social media. “They killed hope. Miguel’s struggle is a light that illuminates Colombia’s path.”
Senator was among the most powerful critics of Colombia’s current government. In October, he joined the list of politicians trying to replace it. Gustavo PetroThe first leftist to lead Colombia in the May 2026 elections.
The authorities complained that the candidate’s allies ignored the repetitive demands of the government to strengthen the security details provided by the government, while the authorities created various hypotheses on what caused the attack.
Petro went to X to wish Uribe’s condolences to his family and emphasize that the investigation should be further further ”.
“The government should reject and help,” Petro wrote. “Regardless of ideology, people and their families, their lives and security are the priority of the government. We have not seen any member of the opposition, we do not do.”
Immediately after the attack, tens of thousands of people dressed in white and shaking Colombian flags went to the streets to reject violence.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was among the foreign politicians who burned the death of the senator.
“The United States Family, the Colombian people demand justice for those who are mourning and responsible,” he said.
By declaring his desires to higher office, Uibe tried to become the youngest president in the country, although not on the list of favorites in the first stages of the race when he was shot. The shooting encouraged the government to strengthen security for all opposition politicians and presidential hopes, and some called political rallies because of the fear of being attacked.
Javier Garay, a professor of political science at the University of Colombia Externado, said that Uibe has become the symbol of the right to Colombia ”. However, considering the lack of unity and various proposals of dozens of politicians competing to represent the block in the next year’s ballot, he thought it was early to predict whether the senator’s death would strengthen the political fraction.
Associated Press writer Regina Garcia Cano contributed from Mexico City.
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