Miguel Uribe Turbay’s remains were veiled on Tuesday at the Congress of Colombia amid a national shock of which several political edges emerge. The murder committed against a presidential candidate of the Democratic Center, the main force of the right of the South American country, installs in Bogota the logic of the elimination of the adversary that is known in the interior of the country, where Only this year 97 social leaders, union and indigenous leaders lost their lives. With crime a disturbing shadow returns facing the elections of 2026 And remember other similar moments of past decades. The general Humberto de la Calle, one of the negotiators of the Peace Agreement with the FARCsigned in 2016, he said that the death of Uribe Turbay is a blow to that process he has sought to establish “The maximum possible guarantees for the exercise of politics“At the same time, the death of a promising applicant to the Executive adds to the right in an internal turbulence situation that returns former president Álvaro Uribe a greater prominence a few weeks after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery and procedural fraud.
The conservative spectrum, which tries to recover the reins of the Executive next year, is involved in internal disputes. “In the two long months that Miguel Uribe fought for his life, the right went through several stages, less because of clarity. Uribismo first entered a kind of shock for his attack and when he tried to reactivate the campaign came the condemnation for manipulation to witnesses against the former president. Both blows expanded as replicas of an earthquake in the right -wing campaign,” said the portal ‘the empty chair’. The candidates of the Democratic Center, Abelardo de la Espriella, Vicky Dávila and María Fernanda Cabal were not delayed to occupy the place left by Uribe Turbay with words and gestures that cause stupor. What they have in common and other candidates is a willingness to radicalize the positions of the right and ram against the leftist government to which they responsible for the fate run by the extinct senator.
Moderation order
Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez Suárez confirmed a hypothesis that links the lethal attack against Uribe Turbay with a faction of the FARC that did not join the peace agreement. “The murder of Miguel Uribe tests institutionality and democracy of Colombia: implications of the magnicide,” said the newspaper ‘El Tiempo’, of Bogotá. The editorial of the other capital newspaper, ‘the spectator’ reason in the same direction. “It does not stop overwhelming the murder of leaders. This crime is a Mogidide. The first, in almost 36 years, against someone looking for the presidency. “He immediately refers to the attempts on the right of capitalizing the victim’s figure.”In the midst of pain, it is grotesque that this fact is being used as an electoral weapon. So much that conspiracy theories are speculated that we try to add political revenues with the attack is an affront to the memory of Uribe Turbay. The rejection of this crime must be unanimous and without nuances or opportunisms. There is no cause to justify such an atrocity. “Violence, recalls the editorial,” hurts the whole society “, it doesn’t matter” that some had deep ideological differences “with the victim and other great leaders:” His death is a loss for the entire country, because he breaks the rules that allow us to live together and because each act of barbarism erodes the tissue that unites us. We must collectively assume the duel and the responsibility of preventing them from being repeated. “
The figure of Álvaro Uribe
In this context, the figure of former president Uribe emerges with another brio, who He braided in a rough controversy with Juan Manuel Santoswho in 2010 had been his dolphin, but the paths of both bifurcar when the heir was negotiating with the main guerrillas the end of the armed conflict. Uribe considered an affront the presence of Santos, Nobel Peace Prize, in the senator’s funeral. “In this time of pain, my torment increases when you see on the distance screen Hypocrisy by Juan Manuel Santos, who returned power to the criminals. “Santos asked who had appointed him as a defense minister, in 2007,” leave hate behind “because the country” needs greatness and example of both. “The Democratic Center found a moment of internal concord attacking Santos.”Contributed to the violence that today enluta to the country. It is equally painful that former president Uribe, who led the fight against violence and saved Colombia from destruction, is unfairly deprived of his freedom and cannot pay tribute to Miguel Uribe in this moment of pain, “he said the community.
The fact that in the middle of the three -day duel decreed by the Government has not ceased to be striking, The Attorney General’s Office asked the Superior Court of Bogotá to annul the conviction against the former president. In an 81 -page trade, the Public Ministry delegate maintains that the opinion of Judge Liliana Heredia would have “evidence”.
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