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Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was shot at at an event in Bogota on June 7, allegedly by a teenager.
Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating the shooting, said in a statement that the senator received two gunshot wounds in the attack, which wounded two others. A 15-year-old boy was arrested at the scene with a Glock pistol, the office added.
Video footage posted to social networks showed the senator giving a speech to a crowd in Bogota’s Fontibon district before being shot multiple times.
A medical report from the Santa Fe Foundation hospital said that Uribe was admitted in critical condition and is undergoing a “neurosurgical and peripheral vascular procedure”.
The 39-year-old senator is a key figure of the center-right Centro Democrático – or Democratic Center – the biggest opposition party in Colombia. He had expressed his intention to run in next year’s election.
In a broadcast statement Saturday evening, Colombian President Gustavo Petro vowed to hunt down those responsible, suggesting other criminals may have been involved.
“No resource should be spared, not a single peso or a single moment of energy, to find the mastermind … Wherever they live, whether in Colombia or abroad,” said Petro, who leads the left-wing Colombia Humana party.
The President also expressed his hope that the opposition senator would survive and said politics should be “free of violence.”
Meanwhile, Uribe’s wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, posted a message on his account on the X social network asking for prayers for his recovery.
“Miguel is fighting for his life right now. Let us ask God to guide the hands of the doctors who are treating him,” she wrote.
Petro, a former rebel, made history when he won the presidential elections in 2022. It was the first time a lift-wing president was elected in Colombia, a country historically aligned with the West. The President has already expressed his will to run for a second term. It is unclear however how the assassination attempt on Uribe will affect his chances.
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only one?? too bad
you can make a comparison to the kennedy murder, and ask your self, why all this fuss about “voting” ? its a charade. hang them if they want to rule you, and you will soon find the real powers, mad from rabies.
right wingers in latin america tend to be american vassals
leftists are the most violent people in history.
name a single small government conservative thats committed mass murder? were any not socialists or communist?
why are leftists not simply shot on sight like a rabid dog?
anglo europeans are just as violent only they get cronies/proxies to do it for them.
what euro country is conservative o.o
leftists reprobate wef homocuck politicians. how else would they act?
my comment had nothing to do with geography.
leftists always say lets you and him fight.
maybe you should research operation gladio? unless you are a disinformation warrior deliberately spreading lies.
pinochet blows your theory out the window
lol…pinochet.
small government conservative? i didnt say actual fascists.
who are these “small government conservatives” you are so in love with?
nobody yet knows if farc or drug cartels were involved, we speculate on geopolitics but could be domestic problems too
a political ally of the united states in colombia suddenly falls. of course, see no connection with american support for the terrorists who have attacked russia recently… what goes around comes around.