Colombia: injured in June, the presidential candidate senator is dead

The candidate for the presidency of Colombia and Senator Miguel Uribe, injured by bullet at the head during a public meeting in June in Bogota, died after spending two months in intensive care and suffered several surgical interventions, his wife announced on Monday.

“You will always be the love of my life. Thank you for a life full of love, “wrote Claudia Tarazona, on her Instagram account, adding:” Rest in peace, love of my life, I will watch over our children “. Miguel Uibe, a 39 -year -old curator, had been touched by two bullets in the head and a ball in the leg by a killer with a 2015 -year -old hitman while spending a speech in the capital on June 7.

“Today is a sad day for the country,” the Colombian vice-president, Francia Márquez, said in a message on the social network X on Monday. “Violence cannot continue to mark our destiny. Democracy is not built with bullets or with blood, it is built with respect, with dialogue, ”she added.

Member of the Democratic Center Party of former right -wing president Alvaro Uibe, with whom he has no relationship, Miguel Uibe had announced in October his wish to present himself in the presidential election of May 2026 to succeed the left president Gustavo Petro.

The clinic where he had been hospitalized announced on Saturday that his condition was “again critical” following a new cerebral hemorrhage. This attack had rekindled fears of a return from Colombia to violence in the 1980s and 1990s, when political murders and attacks were common.

The teenager accused of being the author of the shots is in detention, as well as two other people suspected of complicity. All were charged by the prosecution for attempted homicide and illegal weapon port. None recognized the facts.