(13 Aug 2025)
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Bogotá, Colombia – August 13, 2025
1. Various of members of the Presidential Guard escorting the coffin of Senator Miguel Uribe
2. Various of Miguel Uribe’s wife, Miguel Uribe’s father, and his children behind the coffin
3. Miguel Uribe’s wife Claudia Tarazona accompanying her son to place a bouquet of flowers on Miguel Uribe’s coffin
4. Family during the funeral
5. Various of Miguel Uribe’s funeral
6. Claudia Tarazona, Miguel Uribe’s wife, hugging Miguel Uribe’s father, Miguel Uribe Londoño, at the end of the funeral
STORYLINE:
Colombians on Wednesday bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died more than two months after being shot during a political rally in the South American country’s capital.
Family, friends, members of Congress and a delegation of government officials from the United States honored Uribe.
The 39-year-old died Monday in the hospital where he had been since the June 7 shooting. Thousands of mourners paid their respects Tuesday.
Uribe had become one of the strongest critics of Colombia’s current government. In October, he joined the list of politicians seeking to replace Gustavo Petro, the first leftist to govern Colombia, in the May 2026 elections.
Petro and Vice President Francia Márquez on Wednesday said on social media that they would not attend Uribe’s funeral out of respect for his family’s wishes.
Uribe was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park in a working-class Bogota neighborhood. Authorities have arrested six people, including the teenager they say shot him, but they have not determined who ordered the attack or why.
After lying in state since Monday, Uribe’s coffin, flanked by members of the presidential guard, was carried on foot from Congress to the Primate Cathedral of Colombia, located a few meters away in Bogota’s iconic Plaza de Bolivar. His wife, María Claudia Tarazona, accompanied the coffin with their 4-year-old son.
A hearse then took Uribe through the streets of Bogota to the city’s Central Cemetery.
The cemetery is the oldest in the city and the final resting place of figures such as Liberal leader Luis Carlos Galán, who was shot dead in 1989 while giving a presidential campaign speech in Bogota.
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