Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay looks connected aft the Senate voted against the authorities labour betterment referendum promoted by Colombia's President Gustavo Petro successful Bogota connected May 14, 2025. A Colombian right-wing absorption legislator and campaigner for adjacent year's statesmanlike election, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was changeable and wounded successful Bogota connected June 7, 2025, assorted media reported, portion the authorities denounced an "attack." (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a imaginable statesmanlike contender, survived an archetypal cognition for his injuries aft being changeable successful Bogota connected Saturday, according to his woman and the infirmary treating him, though helium remains successful intensive care.
Uribe, 39, is simply a subordinate of the absorption right-wing Democratic Center enactment and was changeable successful the caput during a run lawsuit successful a nationalist parkland successful the Fontibon neighborhood.
A lad nether 15 years of property was arrested aft the shooting, the lawyer general's bureau said successful a connection connected Saturday, adding helium was carrying a 9-millimeter Glock-type pistol.
The authorities said it is investigating if determination were different imaginable perpetrators. Leftist President Gustavo Petro urged an probe into who had ordered the onslaught successful remarks precocious connected Saturday.
Campaigning is conscionable opening for the country's 2026 statesmanlike predetermination and Uribe, who is from a salient governmental family, does not person a well-known level truthful far.
It was unclear wherefore helium was targeted successful the attack. Though helium has talked astir the request to amended information and astir having personally suffered successful the country's conflict, galore different imaginable candidates, including others from his party, person besides said steps indispensable beryllium taken to tackle crime.
Uribe's gramps was president from 1978 to 1982, portion his mother, writer Diana Turbay, was kidnapped successful 1990 by an equipped radical nether the bid of the precocious cartel person Pablo Escobar. She was killed during a rescue cognition successful 1991.
"Miguel came retired of surgery, helium made it. Every hr is simply a captious hour. He fought his archetypal battle, and it went well," his woman Maria Claudia Tarazona told section media connected Sunday. "This volition instrumentality time."
The mates are parents to a young son.
In a statement, the Santa Fe Foundation infirmary wherever Uribe was treated said helium had procedures connected his caput and his near thigh, and remained successful intensive attraction arsenic doctors question to stabilize his condition.
Uribe's enactment said successful a connection that equipped subjects changeable him from behind. Videos connected societal media showed a man, identified arsenic Uribe, being tended to aft the shooting. He appeared to beryllium bleeding from his head.
Bogota's mayor, Carlos Galan, whose ain statesmanlike campaigner begetter was assassinated successful 1989, addressed journalists extracurricular the infirmary overnight, saying helium had asked for accrued extortion for each candidates successful Bogota and for Uribe's family.
Under investigation
The Colombian authorities is offering immoderate $730,000 arsenic a reward for accusation successful the case.
"For present determination is thing much than hypothesis," Petro said, adding that failures successful information protocols would besides beryllium looked into. Uribe had the bodyguard extortion provided for senators and different officials.
Petro sympathized with Uribe's household successful a connection connected X, saying: "I don't cognize however to easiness your pain. It is the symptom of a parent lost, and of a homeland."
People gathered extracurricular the infirmary successful bluish Bogota, staging candlelight vigils and praying, portion others carried Colombian flags. A march of enactment was planned for Sunday.
Several nations connected Sunday including Brazil, Italy, Spain, Uruguay and Paraguay condemned the attack, arsenic did the Venezuelan authorities and opposition.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said successful a connection that the U.S. "condemns successful the strongest imaginable presumption the attempted assassination" of Uribe, blaming Petro's "inflammatory rhetoric" for the violence.
Petro was an outspoken professional of U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation policies earlier this year, but has been little vocal since Trump threatened to enforce tariffs and sanctions connected the Andean country.
Colombia has for decades been embroiled successful a struggle betwixt leftist rebels, transgression groups descended from right-wing paramilitaries, and the government.
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