The Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe is combating for his life in hospital after being shot in Bogotá.
The 39-year-old senator, who’s operating for the presidency in 2026, is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Centre celebration based by the previous president Alvaro Uribe. The 2 males should not associated.
In response to the celebration’s assertion condemning the assault, the senator was internet hosting a marketing campaign occasion in a public park within the Fontibon neighbourhood within the capital on Saturday when “armed topics shot him within the again”.
The celebration described the assault as critical, however didn’t disclose additional particulars on Uribe’s situation. 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.
Uribe’s spouse, Maria Claudia Tarazona, wrote on her husband’s X account that he was “combating for his life”.
The defence minister, Pedro Sánchez, stated a suspect had been arrested within the taking pictures and authorities had been investigating whether or not others had been concerned. Sánchez stated he had visited the hospital the place Uribe was being handled.
Colombia’s presidency issued an announcement saying the federal government “categorically and forcefully” rejected the violent assault, and known as for an intensive investigation.
Uribe is from a outstanding household with hyperlinks to the nation’s Liberal celebration. 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.
The leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, sympathised with the senator’s household, posting on-line: “I don’t know find out how to ease your ache. It’s the ache of a mom misplaced, and of a homeland.”
Petro later stated in a speech on Saturday evening that the particular person arrested was a minor and that the investigation would deal with discovering who had ordered the assault.
“For now there’s nothing greater than speculation,” Petro stated, including that failures in safety protocols would even be seemed into.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, stated in an announcement that the US “condemns within the strongest attainable phrases the tried assassination” of Uribe, blaming Petro’s “inflammatory rhetoric” for the violence.
