The Colombian presidential senator and candidate has died Monday as a result of, in Bogotá, while intervening in a campaign act. He has died at the Santa Fe Foundation, the clinic to which the 39 -year -old politician, son of the murdered journalist Diana Turbay and grandson of former president Julio César Turbay Ayala had been transferred.
The former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, leader of the political party to which Uribe belonged, a democratic center, has lamented the death of the presidential senator and candidate: “Evil destroys everything, they killed hope,” he said. Uribe Vélez, who ruled Colombia between 2002 and 2010, was recently convicted of witness manipulation already expects a second instance decision.
Evil destroys everything, they killed hope. That Miguel Sea Luz’s fight that illuminates Colombia’s right path.
– Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@alvarouribevel)
The health status of Uribe Turbay. After a scheduled intervention in the early hour, he had presented “acute intracerebral bleeding” that forced another surgery, this time urgently. Hours later, in the afternoon, the clinic had reported that the condition of the senator was “extremely critical” for “a persistent cerebral edema” and “an intracerebral bleeding of difficult control.”
The politician of the right -wing party, the main opponent of the government of Gustavo Petro, received several shots while intervening in a public event in the west of the capital. Through several videos, the exact moment could be seen, around five in the afternoon, in which several shots are heard and Uribe falls to the floor from the improvised platform in which he talked about his campaign proposals. The politician’s escorts reacted immediately and took him to a nearby clinic. Hours later he was transferred in ambulance to the Santa Fe Clinic in northern Bogotá, one of the best in the city, where he has been in critical condition since then and where he has died.
The authorities almost immediately captured a child under 14 as a material responsible for the attack. The investigations continue, there are already two more detainees, and the president has said that no hypothesis is ruled out.
The attack on the candidate has shocked a country that immediately rolled up the murders that sowed terror in the late 1980s and the beginning of the ninety presidential and political candidates recognized, such as Bernardo Jaramillo, Carlos Pizarro or the father of the current mayor, Luis Carlos Galán. The senator leaves his wife María Claudia Tarazona, three daughters of her that he had welcomed as a father and a four -year -old son. At that age, Uribe Turbay lost his mother, Diana Turbay, a renowned journalist, who was kidnapped by the drug lords that Pablo Escobar led and died in a rescue attempt.
Uribe Turbay was a lawyer at the University of Los Andes with Master in Harvard Public Administration. He showed his political vein from a young age. With only 25 years, in 2012, he launched and was elected councilor of Bogotá by the Liberal Party, his grandfather and one of the two formations of traditional Colombian bipartisanship. In his four -year period in that position he stood out as one of the most critical voices of the then mayor and today president, by Gustavo Petro, and a rising figure of the political right.
From the Senate, Uribe was consolidated or as one of the main voices of the opposition to the government of Gustavo Petro, with a speech focused on the defense of security and institutions, critic with the total peace policy with which the government has tried to negotiate in parallel with the different illegal groups of the country, and in general the presidential proposals.
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