Colombian conservative senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay died Monday, greater than two months after being shot throughout a marketing campaign rally in western Bogota.
His spouse, María Claudia Tarazona, confirmed the 39-year-old’s demise early Monday.
Uribe Turbay was critically wounded on June 7 throughout a marketing campaign rally within the nation’s capital, struggling gunshot wounds to the top and leg. He underwent emergency surgical procedure and remained hospitalized in intensive care till his demise.
“You may at all times be the love of my life,” his spouse, Maria Claudia Tarazona, stated on Instagram early on Monday. “Thanks for a life crammed with love, thanks for being a father to the ladies, the most effective dad to Alejandro.”
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A teenage suspect was arrested on the scene, and authorities have since detained a number of others. Final month, police arrested the alleged mastermind of the assault — Elder José Arteaga Hernández, who makes use of the aliases “Chipi” or “Costeño.”
The incident has raised renewed issues about political violence within the nation.
The motive for the capturing remains to be being investigated. In October, Uribe introduced his intention to run in Colombia’s 2026 presidential election. From his Senate seat, he had turn into certainly one of President Gustavo Petro’s most vocal critics.
The assault has been broadly condemned in a rustic with a darkish previous through which drug cartels and rebel teams murdered and kidnapped politicians. Uribe is the son of a journalist who was kidnapped and killed throughout one of many nation’s most violent intervals in 1991.
Shortly after the capturing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the U.S. “condemns within the strongest doable phrases the tried assassination” and known as the assault “a direct menace to democracy.” He blamed “violent leftist rhetoric coming from the very best ranges of the Colombian authorities” for the capturing.
