US EditionColombia Buries Assassinated Presidential Candidate
Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot three times during a campaign rally and died after nine weeks in intensive care, intensifying concerns over political violence in Colombia.
- On June 7, Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot during a campaign rally at Bogotá’s El Golfito Park, struck twice in the head and once in the leg.
- Amid Colombia’s crowded presidential field, Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a prominent Uribeist opponent of President Gustavo Petro, rose as a key conservative figure.
- Following intensive care, six individuals have been arrested, including a teenage gunman who allegedly claimed he was paid by a local drug dealer.
- In response, President Gustavo Petro denounced the killing as `a defeat for democracy` and pledged to intensify the investigation, while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed shock and sorrow.
- Amid concerns for safe participation, 293 days until the May 31, 2026, Colombian elections pose questions following Turbay’s death.
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Colombia buries assassinated presidential candidate
Colombia buried murdered presidential candidate Miguel Uribe on Wednesday, with his widow tearfully warning that the country must shake its dark and long history of political violence.
In recent months, the name of María Claudia Tarazona took on prominence in Colombia. Her life became visible after the psychological attack suffered by the senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, a fact that caused her death due to the severity of the wounds.During the following days, Tarazona reported on her state of health and thanked her for the messages of support she received.What Miguel Uribe Turbay died of: this was th…
On Wednesday, Colombian pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died last Monday after spending more than 60 days hospitalized for the attack during a rally, will take place.
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe stated that President Gustavo Petro instigated the assassination of presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay with his speeches.
He died just 39 years old Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate, sacrificed on the altar of a possible democracy: a democracy that, in Colombia, seems to be constantly succumbing to violence. Hit in an attack on 7 June, while participating in a meeting in Bogotá, he remained in a coma for more than two months, until he died on 11 August 2025 at the hospital Fundación Santa Fe in the capital, due to the serious wou…
Colombia’s main cities also paid posthumous tributes to the young politician who died two months after being attacked.
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