Mother’s orphan because of Pablo Escobar, grandson of a former president and ascending figure on the right, the senator and presidential Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died at age 39 after suffering an attack, is the last victim of political violence in Colombia in Colombia
Miguel Uribe Turbay, a member of the Democratic Center, the main Colombian right -wing party, received two shots in the head on June 7 during a speech against activists in a labor neighborhood in Bogotá.
Moments before the attack, he had remembered his mother in a speech and described himself as a person who lived in “own flesh” violence.
Uribe Turbay was four years old on January 25, 1991 when his mother died during a failed police operation that sought to release her from the Medellín Capo de la Cocaine Cartel Pablo Escobar.
Months before, Diana Turbay, director of one of the most watched television news of the time, had to conduct an exclusive interview with a guerrilla leader.
But it was a trap of Escobar to kidnap her and other colleagues as a way to avoid the extradition of Colombian drug traffickers to the United States.
«Miguelito»
The kidnapping of Diana Turbay is narrated by the Nobel Prize for Colombian literature Gabriel García Márquez in the novel “News of a kidnapping” (1997).
«Gabo» quotes passages from the journalist’s newspaper in captivity. In his pages he told him that “Miguelito” was withdrawn and was not baptized.
The distressing wait for the family between the rapture and death lasted five months.
Uribe Turbay and his older sister, María Carolina, grew in a prominent family as grandchildren of the ex-president Julio César Turbay (1978-1982).
He studied in one of the best schools in Bogotá, became a lawyer and ended a master’s degree at Harvard University.
“My generation”
When he was a candidate for mayor of Bogotá, in 2019, his flags were the security and the fight against drug use. He was secretary of the City Government and councilor.
He wore glasses and was always perfectly combed.
While he was fighting for his life at the clinic, his relatives shared videos in which he appeared playing guitar and accordion.
In one of them he sings with a friend “My generation”, a theme of the Colombian singer -songwriter Andrés Cepeda who tells the history of children marked by drug trafficking violence.
The leader of the Democratic Center, former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), considered him a “hope of the homeland.”
He was “great husband, father, son, brother” and “co -worker,” the ex -president’s influential attack said after the attack, who had no relationship with the young leader despite sharing a last name.
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“Reconciliation”
It is not clear why they shot him. The authorities have so far captured six people involved, including the adolescent who shot, and aimed at a dissent of the extinct Guerrillas Farc as the possible intellectual authors.
The senator was considered a rising figure of the democratic center and threats against him were not known.
During his hospitalization, Uribe Turbay gave signals of improvement and mid -July entered the neurorrehabilitation stage, but fell to a new cerebral hemorrhage and died almost at the same age as his mother.
Leave a little son and three teenage daughters of his wife María Claudia Tarazona, who welcomed as his own.
“Rest in peace love of my life, I will take care of our children,” Tarazona wrote on his Instagram account at dawn on Monday.
His death revives the worst moments of the convulsive history of Colombia. In Escobar times, between 1980 and 1990, four presidential candidates were killed. It also shakes the 2026 elections to replace the leftist president Gustavo Petro.
In an interview with Bocas Uribe Turbay magazine he said he forgave those responsible for the kidnapping of his mother.
“Reconciliation is the only thing that helps one to take the step and overcome such a difficult time,” he said.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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