Colombian senator Miguel Uribe dies after June campaign shooting | Colombia
His wife died in a campaign event in June, Colombian Senator and Hopeful Miguel Uibe died.
Uibe, a candidate for opposition from the Rightwing Centro Democtiko Party, was shot twice during a campaign stop two months ago on his head and once in his leg and competed for his party to be nominated for the 2026 elections. He had a nine -week intensive care unit and had several surgeries before he was defeated at the age of 39.
In a statement published online, his wife María Claudia addressed the Tarazona late and promised to look at his children. “I want God to show a way to learn to live without you,” He wrote. “Lie in peace, the love of my life, I will take care of our children.”
“Wait for me, because when I fulfill my promise to our children, I will come to call you and we will have our second chance,” he added.
Six people were arrested for the June 7 shoot, including an armed young child. In the image of his arrest, he was heard that he was hired by a young local drug dealer and claimed that he had made for money for my family ”.
The authorities stressed that the attack followed the “intellectual writers ve and faced a small use of a small use to commit a crime at least three adults. Colombia National Police Director Carlos Fernando Triana, an arrested man élder José Arteaga Hernández’in El Costeño’nin said that the attack, he said.
The Ministry of Defense offered a 3 billion pesto (£ 550,000) award for the information that led to the identification and capture of criminals, and said the United States, Britain and the United Arab Emirates helped the investigation.
Gustavo Petro, the leftist president of Colombia, He wished his condolences To Uibe’s family: “Life is above any ideology.”
“Revenge has fueled violence for decades. No more,” he said. “Miguel’s death hurts us as if we’re one of us. This is a defeat.”
In the twenty years, the assassination pointed out the worst political violence in Colombia and revived the fear of return to the bloody past of the country when organized crime and rebel group candidates, journalists and referees were unpunished. Between 1986 and 1990, five presidential candidates were killed, while the pistol political activity was often targeted.
Uribe’s mother, journalist Diana Turbay was killed in 1991 by the Medellín Carteli, chaired by drug master Pablo Escobar, after a rescue mission.
“If my mother was willing to give her life for a purpose, how can I not do the same in life and politics?” Uribe, five years old when his mother was killed, Interview last year.
Despite the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the main rebel group of the country, the Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the nation continued to grasp the nation and new groups emerged in the void. Earlier this year, fighting between two armed groups close to the Venezueli border led to more than 50,000 people. In June, a wave of bomb attacks on Cali, the third largest city of the country and a few nearby towns killed at least seven people and were injured.
Uibe comes from one of the leading political families of Colombia-the grandson of President Julio César Turbay Ayala (1978-82)-and has a rapid political rise. The lawyer, who received a master’s degree from Harvard University, entered politics as a 25 -year -old Bogotá council member and provided the highest number of votes within the Conservative Democratic Central Party until 2022.
Known for his sharp criticism of Petro, Uibe discussed for a harsh approach to armed groups. The first round was not accepted as a pioneer in the upcoming presidential game.
Following the political election violence from the Bogotá -centered Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, Isaac Morales said, ile With the death of Uribe Turbay, democracy in Colombia disappeared and the election appearance for 2026 is very uncertain. ”
María José Pizarro, a leftist senator who was assassinated in the presidential campaign in 1990 he said Uyibe deserved respect for the Democratic Arena while “represents different ideas than mine”. “Film -free minorities continue to kill, only understand the language of violence and try to influence the country’s fate with bloodshed,” he added.
