Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, died on Monday (11) after more than two months hospitalized for two shots received in the head in Bogota, on June 7 this year.
The Santa Fe Foundation Hospital reported that Miguel Uribe passed away at 1:56 am this dawn and that the institution’s team “worked tirelessly during these more than two months.”
The attack mobilized public opinion from Colombia, a country marked by a long history of political violence with successive attacks over the decades against political, popular and union leaders.
The attack also mobilized United States (US) authorities, which attributed violence to the “rhetoric” of the current government. President Gustavo Petro, on the other hand, condemned the political use of the attack and suggested that the action could have been orchestrated to destabilize his government.
The attack occurred amid the campaign for popular consultation in favor of labor reform defended by the country’s executive.
A 15 -year -old was arrested accused by the shots And the government offered $ 730,000 for information that leads to the intellectuals of the attack.
The opposition senator was affiliated with the Democratic Center Party, a caption of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Despite the common surname, Miguel had no direct relationship with former President Álvaro Uribe. Pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay is the grandson of Julio César Turbay, president of Colombia for the Liberal Party between 1978 and 1982.
Former Councilman and former Secretary of Government of Bogota, Miguel Uribe Turbay was elected senator for the period from 2022 to 2026. When he was only 5 years old, his mother, journalist and TV host Diana Turbay, was kidnapped and killed by the group of paramilitary nursing drugs led by Pablo Escobar, who was trying to overthrow Colombia’s extradition treaty with United States.
