Miguel Uribe, 39, was shot on the 7th with two shots in his head and one in a leg and has been hospitalized at the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation since then
The Colombian Democratic Center Opposition Party bench withdrew on Monday from the Senate plenary to accompany the family of presidential candidate Miguel Uriba Turbay, whose condition is “extremely critical” after new surgery.
“We, from the Democratic Center bench, meeting what the country begins to know, that unfortunately our colleague’s situation is extremely critical, we have no way to be here right now and we go to the clinic,” said Senator Carlos Meisel during the plenary session, where a reform of labor laws submitted by President Gustavo Petro was discussed.
Minutes earlier, the Santa Fe Foundation, where Uribe Turbay has been hospitalized since the June 7 attack, said that the senator’s state of health went from critic to “extremely critical” due to a cerebral edema, following the second surgery to which it was undergoing Monday.
The medical center reported that the 39 -year -old politician, a member of the Democratic Center right party, has a “difficult to control intracerebral hemorrhage.”
Uribe Turbay was shot twice on the head and once in the left leg during a campaign rally in Bogota ten days ago and was again underwent emergency surgery on Monday after detected “acute intracerebral hemorrhage,” according to doctors.
“The state of the patient is therefore of extreme gravity,” according to the statement.
In the context of labor reform, a group of people gathered this morning at Plaza Bolívar, in Bogota, in a concentration organized by the workers centers and supported by Petro, to support their work reform and ask the Senate to take advantage of the original text.
Petro considers that the version now presented to the upper camera is a diluted version of the original. Therefore, the leftist president signed last week a controversial decree, calling a referendum on his original proposal for August 7 and warned that he will only go back if the Senate approves the text approved by the House of Representatives.
Miguel Uribe, 39, was shot on the 7th with two shots in his head and one in a leg and has been hospitalized at the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation ever since.
The aggressor, according to the Colombian Attorney’s Office, was a teenager, captured shortly after the attack, who in the meantime was innocent in court.
Miguel Uribe Turbai is the son of former conservative counselor Miguel Uribe Londoño, and journalist Diana Turbay, murdered in 1991 during a failed rescue operation while kidnapped by Medellin’s drug traffickers. He is also a grandson of former President Julio César Turbay Ayala, who ruled Colombia from 1978 to 1982.
At 39, with an elite education and a nickname that evokes both political power and the wounds of the Colombian conflict, Uribe Turbay was emerging as the face of the generational renewal of uriblyism, with whose leader, former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), has no relationship relationship but has many political affinities.
