Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay seems on after the Senate voted towards the federal government labor reform referendum promoted by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro in Bogota on Might 14, 2025. A Colombian right-wing opposition senator and candidate for subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was shot and wounded in Bogota on June 7, 2025, numerous media reported, whereas the federal government denounced an “assault.” (Picture by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Picture by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe was shot in Bogota on Saturday, in line with the federal government and his social gathering, and native media reported that he was in an area hospital in severe situation.
The 39-year-old senator, who’s working for the presidency in 2026, is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Middle social gathering based by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The 2 males will not be associated.
In line with a celebration assertion condemning the assault, the senator was internet hosting a marketing campaign occasion in a public park within the Fontibon neighborhood within the capital on Saturday when “armed topics shot him within the again.”
The social gathering described the assault as severe, however didn’t disclose additional particulars on Uribe’s situation.
Colombia’s Protection Minister Pedro Sanchez mentioned a suspect had been arrested within the taking pictures and that authorities have been investigating whether or not others have been concerned. Sanchez mentioned 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 into the occasions that befell.
Uribe is from a outstanding household in Colombia, 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 below the command of the late cartel chief Pablo Escobar. She was killed throughout a rescue operation.
Colombia has for many years been embroiled in a battle between leftist rebels, legal teams descended from right-wing paramilitaries, and the federal government. Leftist President Gustavo Petro sympathized with the senator’s household in a message on X, saying, “I do not know the way to ease your ache. It’s the ache of a mom misplaced, and of a homeland.”
