The murder of presidential senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbayof the right -wing opposition party, is a “very hard blow“To the 2016 Peace Agreement, the Government’s negotiating chiefs with the former FARC guerrillas.
This agreement contemplates guarantees for the exercise of policy and “Protection and security programs“For the opposition, the Former Government’s negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, and the former commissioner for peace, Sergio Jaramillo.
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However, the lawyers of the murdered politician have denounced that the National Protection Unit (UNP)which depends on Home Officehe ignored at least 25 requests to reinforce security.
Humberto de la Calle
“Miguel Uribe was also the head of the political opposition in Colombia, being the first line of the list to the Senate of the Democratic Center Party. That is why his death is also a very hard blow to the 2016 Peace Agreement“The former officials said.
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Uribe Turbay, 39, died Monday at the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá64 days after being seriously injured with two shots in the head in an attack perpetrated on June 7 when he headed a political rally for the presidential elections of next year.
“We always said that a principle and a fundamental objective of the agreement was to break the link between politics and weapons“They remembered the street and Jaramillo.
Public opinion statement⁰
Bogotá, August 12, 2025⁰As Colombians, we condemn in the most energetic way the cowardly and painful murder of the senator of the Republic and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, and we extend to his admirable family and his party …
– Humberto de la Calle (@Delacallehum) August 12, 2025
The exnegociators stressed that the peace agreement establishes that, after the end of the armed conflict with the FARC, they should be established “the maximum possible guarantees for the exercise of politics“And in particular it is required”the promotion of coexistence, tolerance and non -stigmatization“To the opponents that”They cannot remain meaningless words“
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Therefore, the two former officials criticized the attitude “of disdain and indifference, not to say of contempt“, of the President Gustavo Petroin the face of these commitments and in front of everything agreed in the peace agreement.
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After underlineing that “Peace and security are two sides of the same currency“, the ex -negociators regretted that the government has abandoned the regions most affected by the armed conflict, in which the peace agreement focused, and that they are in the hands of the”racketeering“
“And if it is true, as everything indicates, that those responsible for atrocious crime (of Uribe Turbay) are the dissidents and in particular the so -called second Marquetalia, we will see the entire dimension of this terrible mistake. That the whole weight of the law falls“They added.
Miguel Uribe
One of the hypotheses about this crime, typified as assassination by the Prosecutor’s Office, points to the Second Marquetalia, one of the dissidents of the FARC, and one of its bosses, José Aldinever Sierra, aka ‘Zarco Aldinever’, as the assumption of the leading.
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He Defense Minister Pedro Sánchezsaid Monday that there is information that the ‘Zarco Aldinever’ was killed last days in Venezuela, apparently in an attack by the guerrillas of the guerrillas National Liberation Army (ELN).
“The history of Colombia does not have to repeat if the government does what it has to do. It is imperative that its legal and constitutional responsibility takes seriously to protect political opposition, as to peace signatories (…) and strengthening the weakened state intelligence capacities“Peace negotiators concluded.
EFE
