Assassination Attempt In Colombia: Shooting At Potential Presidential Candidate
2- 8.06.2025, 8:09
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Senator Miguel Uribe is a member of the conservative Democratic Center party.
Senator Miguel Uribe, who was a potential presidential candidate, has been shot dead in the Colombian capital Bogota. However, authorities have not yet confirmed the death.
It was reported by Reuters and CNN.
It should be noted that 39-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Center party, which was founded by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Despite the surname overlap, the men are not related.
According to a statement from the party that condemned the attack, the senator was holding a campaign event in a public park in the Fontibon neighborhood on Saturday. At that point, "armed men shot him in the back."
The party characterized the attack as serious but did not disclose additional details about the senator's health condition.
The Colombian presidential administration also issued a statement. It said the government "categorically and firmly" rejects the violent attack and called for a thorough investigation into the events.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro himself also reacted, expressing solidarity with the senator's family.
"I don't know how to ease your pain. It is the pain of a lost mother and a wounded homeland," he wrote in X.
Bogota Mayor Cartam Galan said Uribe was receiving emergency treatment and that "the entire hospital network" in the Colombian capital was on standby in case he needed to be transported. The mayor also added that the alleged attacker has been arrested.
It is not definitively known at this point whether Uribe is dead or still alive.
The media also reported that the senator was planning to become a candidate for the Colombian presidency in 2026.
What is known about Miguel Uribe
As Bloomberg writes, the senator called for a hard line against illegal armed groups that control cocaine production. He has also repeatedly warned that Colombia is sliding toward terror. Just two days before he was shot dead, he said in a speech in Cartagena that Colombia was being "dragged back into past violence."
The media notes that at the peak of drug terror in Colombia in the 1980s and early 1990s - four Colombian presidential candidates were assassinated.
Uribe's own mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed by the Medellin cartel of Pablo Escobar in 1991.
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