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 potential candidate within the nation’s presidential election subsequent 12 months, has been shot and wounded within the nation’s capital, Bogota, in response to 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, mentioned on X.
Uribe is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Middle occasion, based by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
The 2 males usually are not associated.
The Democratic Middle occasion launched an announcement calling the taking pictures “an unacceptable act of violence”.
It mentioned 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 critical, however didn’t disclose additional particulars on Uribe’s situation.
A medical report from the Santa Fe Basis hospital mentioned the senator was admitted in essential 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 gave the impression to be bleeding from his head.
Colombia’s Lawyer Normal’s Workplace, which is investigating the taking pictures, mentioned the senator acquired two gunshot wounds within the assault, which wounded two others. The assertion from the workplace mentioned a 15-year-old boy was arrested on the scene with a firearm.
The federal government mentioned it’s providing some $730,000 as a reward for data within the case.
Colombia’s presidency issued an announcement saying the federal government “categorically and forcefully” rejected the violent assault, and referred to as for a radical investigation into the occasions that befell.
Leftist President Gustavo Petro sympathised with the senator’s household in a message on X, and mentioned: “Respect life, that’s the pink line… My solidarity with the Uribe household and the Turbay household. I don’t know the right way to ease their ache.”
In a speech on Saturday night time, Petro mentioned that the investigation would deal with discovering who had ordered the assault.
“For now, there’s nothing greater than hypotheses,” Petro mentioned, including that failures in safety protocols would even be seemed into.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned in an announcement that the US “condemns within the strongest potential 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 mentioned that “there is no such thing as a room or justification for violence in a democracy”. And Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa mentioned, “We condemn all types of violence and intolerance.”
Each presidents provided solidarity to the senator’s household.
In Colombia, former President Uribe mentioned that “they attacked the hope of the nation, an amazing husband, father, son, brother, an amazing colleague”.
Uribe, who isn’t but an official presidential candidate for his occasion, 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 underneath 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, felony teams descended from right-wing paramilitaries, and the federal government.