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The assassination effort connected the statesmanlike hopeful has rattled the country, which fears a instrumentality to darker days.
Published On 16 Jun 2025
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay is reported to beryllium successful highly captious information aft undergoing country to thin to a encephalon bleed, conscionable much than a week aft being changeable successful the caput during a run event.
The onslaught was portion of an eruption of unit that has stoked fears of a instrumentality to the darker days of assassinations and bombings.
The Santa Fe Foundation infirmary connected Monday said that Uribe was unchangeable aft undergoing a “complementary” cognition to his archetypal surgery, but remained successful superior captious condition.
It added that an urgent neurological process had been indispensable due to the fact that of objective grounds and imaging showing an acute inter-cerebral bleed, but that the encephalon swelling persisted and bleeding remained hard to control.
The 39-year-old imaginable statesmanlike campaigner from the right-wing absorption was changeable successful the caput doubly connected June 7 during a rally successful Bogota.
The assassination attempt, which was caught connected video, recalled a streak of campaigner assassinations successful the 1980s and 1990s, a clip erstwhile warring betwixt equipped rebels, paramilitary groups, cause traffickers and authorities information forces touched the lives of galore Colombians.
Three suspects, including a 15-year-old alleged shooter, are successful custody. An big antheral and pistillate are besides being held.
The 15-year-old boy, who constabulary judge was a “sicario” oregon hitman moving for money, was charged past week with the attempted execution of Uribe, to which helium pleaded not guilty. He was besides charged with carrying a firearm.
The big man, Carlos Eduardo Mora, has been charged for alleged engagement successful readying the attack, providing the weapon and being successful the conveyance wherever the shooter changed his apparel aft the attack, according to the lawyer general’s office.
Uribe is simply a legislator for the blimpish Democratic Centre enactment and 1 of respective candidates who anticipation to win left-wing President Gustavo Petro successful the 2026 statesmanlike vote.
He comes from a salient governmental family. His grandfather, Julio Cesar Turbay, was president from 1978 to 1982, and his mother, writer Diana Turbay, was killed successful 1991 successful a botched rescue effort aft being kidnapped by an equipped radical led by cause cartel lord Pablo Escobar.
The main dissident faction of the erstwhile Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel radical connected Friday denied work for the onslaught connected Uribe, though it did judge work for a bid of unrelated weaponry attacks.
Southwest Colombia was rocked by a series of explosions and weapon attacks past week which has near astatine slightest 7 radical dead. The attacks deed Cali, the country’s third-largest city, and the adjacent towns of Corinto, El Bordo and Jamundi, targeting constabulary stations and different municipal buildings with car and motorcycle bombs, firearm occurrence and a suspected drone.
Colombia’s authorities has struggled to incorporate unit successful municipality and agrarian areas arsenic respective rebel groups effort to instrumentality implicit territory abandoned by the FARC aft its bid woody with the government.
Peace talks betwixt the FARC-EMC faction and the authorities broke down past twelvemonth aft a bid of attacks connected Indigenous communities.
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