Colombian senator dead after June shooting
During a campaign event, Colombian senator Miguel Uibe, who was taken to hospital since he was shot in June, said he had died. He was 39 years old.
Uibe, a potential presidential candidate from the right opposition, was shot in Bogota during a rally on June 7 and had more than one surgery before his death.
“I want God to show the way to learn to live without you,” his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona wrote on social media. “Lie in peace, the love of my life, I will look at our children.”
Former President Alvaro Uibe, the leader of the Senator’s Democratic Central Party and the deceased deputy, wrote in his social media platform X, “Evil destroys everything; they killed hope”.
“Miguel’s struggle may be a light that illuminates the right path of Colombia,” the former president, who was sentenced by a judge to a public official by a judge for a public official by a judge in August.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote to X and was very upset about the news.
“The United States, who demands both mourning and justice for those responsible, stands in solidarity with the people of Colombia.”
The death of Uibe adds more tragedies to the full history of his family. His mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed in 1991 by the Medellin Carteli, headed by the drug master Pablo Escobar in 1991, after a rescue mission.
Uibe enjoyed a rapid political rise, a well -known deputy for the right -wing Democratic Central Party and the presidency, known for his sharp criticism of the administration of leftist President Gustavo Petro.
At the age of 25, he was elected to Bogota’s City Council, where Petro’s leading rival, then criticized the Mayor of the Capital, to deal with waste management and social programs.
In the 2022 legislative elections, Uibe directed Senate Slate for the Democratic Central Party with the slogan “Colombia” and won a seat in the room.
His family stands out in Colombia politics. Mother’s grandfather, Julio Cesar Turbay, was the president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982, his father Rodrigo Uibe Echavarria, chaired the Liberal Party and supported Virgio Barco’s successful 1986 presidential campaign.
