Miguel Uribe, Colombian presidential candidate shot by teenager

Senator Colombian and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, severely injured in his head in an attack on June 7, died on Monday in Bogota, the wife, María Claudia Tarazona, announced on social networks.

“Rest in peace, love of my life, I will take care of our children,” Tarazona wrote in the message, quoted by the Spanish news agency Efe.

Uribe Turbay39, senator for the Democratic Center (right) Party, was hospitalized at the Fundación Santa Fe clinic in Bogota since the day of the attack.

The politician underwent several surgeries, but never left, which got worse on Saturday, according to the clinic.

Uribe Turbay went to the head and one in the left leg while participating in a rally in a park in the Modelia neighborhood of Bogota.

The politician had announced the candidacy for May 2026 presidentials by the Democratic Center, the party founded by the former president Álvaro Uribewho is not familiar.

When he was only 5 years old, the mother of the senator, the journalist and TV presenter Diana Turbay, was kidnapped and killed by the group of paramilitary number drug traffickers led by Pablo Escobarwho tried to prevent Colombia’s extradition treaty with the United States.

One 15 -year -old teenager was arrested on site and since then, the authorities have detained other suspects, who were accused of attempted murder and illegal possession of a weapon, although None of them admitted the crimes.

The government offered 630 thousand euros for information that leads to TRUE COUNTRY OF THE ATTENTION.

The attack rekindled the fear that Colombia is return to violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when political murders and bomb attacks were common.

“Today, it is a sad day for the country”Said the vice president of Colombia, France Márquezcited by the France-PRESse agency.

“Violence cannot continue to mark our destination. Democracy is not built with bullets or blood, it is built with respect and dialogue,” he added in a appeal to the national unit against violence.

Álvaro Uribe, who was president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010, regretted the death of the party candidate he founded. “Evil destroys everything, killed hope. May Michael’s struggle be a light that enlightens the right way to Colombia, ”he said.

The death of Uribe Turbay was also convicted by the head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubiowho asked those responsible to be brought to court.

“The United States are jointly and severally with the family, the Colombian people, both in mourning and in the appeal to those responsible.”