The senator’s spouse says he ‘is combating for his life’ after being shot at a marketing campaign occasion in Bogota.
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, a doable candidate within the nation’s presidential election subsequent yr, has been shot and wounded within the nation’s capital, Bogota, based on authorities.
The 39-year-old senator, who was shot on Saturday throughout a marketing campaign occasion as a part of his run for the presidency in 2026, is now “combating for his life”, his spouse, Maria Claudia Tarazona, stated on X.
Uribe is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Middle get together, based by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
The 2 males should not associated.
The Democratic Middle get together launched an announcement calling the taking pictures “an unacceptable act of violence”.
It stated the senator was internet hosting a marketing campaign occasion in a public park within the Fontibon neighbourhood within the capital when “armed topics” shot him from behind.
It described the assault as severe, however didn’t disclose additional particulars on Uribe’s situation.
A medical report from the Santa Fe Basis hospital stated the senator was admitted in vital situation and is present process a “neurosurgical and peripheral vascular process”.
Movies on social media confirmed a person, recognized as Uribe, being tended to after the taking pictures. He seemed to be bleeding from his head.
Colombia’s Legal professional Basic’s Workplace, which is investigating the taking pictures, stated the senator obtained two gunshot wounds within the assault, which wounded two others. The assertion from the workplace stated a 15-year-old boy was arrested on the scene with a firearm.
The federal government stated it’s providing some $730,000 as a reward for info within the case.
Colombia’s presidency issued an announcement saying the federal government “categorically and forcefully” rejected the violent assault, and known as for a radical investigation into the occasions that occurred.
Leftist President Gustavo Petro sympathised with the senator’s household in a message on X, and stated: “Respect life, that’s the pink line… My solidarity with the Uribe household and the Turbay household. I don’t know how one can ease their ache.”
In a speech on Saturday night time, Petro stated that the investigation would concentrate on discovering who had ordered the assault.
“For now, there may be nothing greater than hypotheses,” Petro stated, including that failures in safety protocols would even be regarded into.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in an announcement that the US “condemns within the strongest doable phrases the tried assassination” of Uribe, blaming Petro’s “inflammatory rhetoric” for the violence.
Reactions poured in from round Latin America. Chilean President Gabriel Boric stated that “there isn’t a room or justification for violence in a democracy”. And Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa stated, “We condemn all types of violence and intolerance.”
Each presidents supplied solidarity to the senator’s household.
In Colombia, former President Uribe stated that “they attacked the hope of the nation, an important husband, father, son, brother, an important colleague”.
Uribe, who will not be but an official presidential candidate for his get together, is from a outstanding household in Colombia.
His father was a businessman and union chief. His mom, journalist Diana Turbay, was kidnapped in 1990 by an armed group below the command of the late cartel chief Pablo Escobar.
She was killed throughout a rescue operation in 1991.
Colombia has for many years been embroiled in a battle between leftist rebels, prison teams descended from right-wing paramilitaries, and the federal government.
