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Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay looks connected aft the Senate voted against the authorities labour betterment referendum promoted by Colombia's President Gustavo Petro successful Bogota connected May 14, 2025. A Colombian right-wing absorption legislator and campaigner for adjacent year's statesmanlike election, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was changeable and wounded successful Bogota connected June 7, 2025, assorted media reported, portion the authorities denounced an "attack." (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe was changeable successful Bogota connected Saturday, according to the authorities and his party, and section media reported that helium was successful a section infirmary successful superior condition.
The 39-year-old senator, who is moving for the presidency successful 2026, is a subordinate of the opposition conservative Democratic Center party founded by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The 2 men are not related.
According to a enactment connection condemning the attack, the legislator was hosting a run lawsuit successful a nationalist parkland successful the Fontibon vicinity successful the superior connected Saturday erstwhile "armed subjects changeable him successful the back."
The enactment described the onslaught arsenic serious, but did not disclose further details connected Uribe's condition.
Colombia's Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said a fishy had been arrested successful the shooting and that authorities were investigating whether others were involved. Sanchez said helium had visited the infirmary wherever Uribe was being treated.
Colombia's presidency issued a connection saying the authorities "categorically and forcefully" rejected the convulsive attack, and called for a thorough probe into the events that took place.
Uribe is from a salient household in Colombia, with links to the country's Liberal Party. His begetter was a businessman and national leader. His mother, writer Diana Turbay, was kidnapped successful 1990 by an equipped radical nether the bid of the precocious cartel person Pablo Escobar. She was killed during a rescue operation.
Colombia has for decades been embroiled successful a struggle betwixt leftist rebels, transgression groups descended from right-wing paramilitaries, and the government. Leftist President Gustavo Petro sympathized with the senator's household successful a connection connected X, saying, "I don't cognize however to easiness your pain. It is the symptom of a parent lost, and of a homeland."
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