{"id":2169,"date":"2025-08-11T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/colombia-senator-39-dies-weeks-after-being-shot-at-campaign-event\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:36:30","slug":"colombia-senator-39-dies-weeks-after-being-shot-at-campaign-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/colombia-senator-39-dies-weeks-after-being-shot-at-campaign-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia senator, 39, dies weeks after being shot at campaign event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally and underwent multiple surgeries before his death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who had been fighting for his life since he was shot in June during a campaign event, has died, according to his family.<\/p>\n

Uribe, a 39-year-old senator and a potential presidential candidate from the right-wing opposition, was shot in Bogota<\/a> on June 7 during a rally and underwent multiple surgeries before his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you,\u201d his wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, wrote on social media. \u201cRest in peace, love of my life, I will take care of our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uribe enjoyed a rapid political rise, becoming a recognised lawmaker for the Democratic Centre party. He was seeking to run in the 2026 presidential election.<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old boy was arrested at the scene with a \u201c9mm Glock-type firearm\u201d and has pleaded not guilty<\/a> after being formally charged on June 10 with attempted murder, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. Five other suspects have also been arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a sad day for the country,\u201d Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cViolence cannot continue to mark our destiny. Democracy is not built with bullets or blood, it is built with respect, with dialogue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Security beefed up\u2019<\/h2>\n

President Gustavo Petro had previously blamed an international crime ring as being behind the attack on Uribe, without providing details or evidence, and has beefed up security for government officials and opposition leaders since it happened.<\/p>\n

The assassination is reminiscent of political violence in Colombia during the 1980s and 1990s, when four presidential candidates were murdered in separate attacks blamed on drug cartels allied with right-wing paramilitary death squads.<\/p>\n

Uribe\u2019s death also adds to his family\u2019s fraught history, with relatives prominent in Colombian politics.<\/p>\n

His mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed in 1991 during a botched rescue mission after she was kidnapped by the Medellin cartel, headed by drug lord Pablo Escobar.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Uribe\u2019s maternal grandfather, Julio Cesar Turbay, served as Colombia\u2019s president from 1978 to 1982, while his paternal grandfather, Rodrigo Uribe Echavarria, headed the Liberal Party and supported Virgilio Barco\u2019s successful 1986 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Uribe was elected to Bogota\u2019s city council at 25. In 2016, at 30, he was appointed city government secretary, the youngest person to hold the position. He resigned from that post in 2018 to launch an unsuccessful bid for mayor of Bogota as an independent.<\/p>\n

In the 2022 legislative elections, Uribe led the Senate slate for the Democratic Center party with the slogan \u201cColombia First\u201d, winning a seat in the chamber.<\/p>\n

There, Uribe cemented his role as one of the primary opposition voices to Petro, criticising the government\u2019s peace strategy aimed at ending Colombia\u2019s six-decade armed conflict.<\/p>\n

Former right-wing President Alvaro Uribe, leader of the Democratic Center party with no relation to the deceased senator, called Miguel Uribe \u201ca hope for the homeland\u201d.<\/p>\n

Uribe leaves behind his wife, a young son and three teenage daughters of his wife from a previous marriage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally and underwent multiple surgeries before his death. Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who had been fighting for his life since he was shot in June during a campaign event, has died, according to his family. Uribe, a 39-year-old senator and a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}