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Bogota, Colombia – 11 August 2025
1. Various of people carrying floral tributes
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Claudia Tarazona, wife of Senator Miguel Uribe:
"We are saying goodbye to him. I also want to tell you that I hope justice will be done. Because justice strengthens democracy. Holding human beings accountable for their actions makes a country fair, and there must be justice. Not only for Miguel (Uribe), but for the whole of Colombia, which deserves to live in peace."
3. Various of people carrying floral tributes
4. Various of Colombian flag at half mast
STORYLINE:
A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful whose shooting at a political rally in June recalled some of the darkest chapters of the country’s drug-fueled violence died Monday.
The family of Miguel Uribe Turbay said the politician died at a hospital in the capital, Bogota. Uribe, 39, was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park and had since remained in an intensive care unit in serious condition with episodes of slight improvement.
"Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children,” his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, wrote in a social media post confirming his death. “I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you.”
Speaking to the press his wife said that she hoped those responsible would be brought to account.
A teenage suspect was arrested at the scene of the June 7 attack in a working-class Bogota neighborhood. Authorities later detained several other people, but they have not determined who ordered the hit or why.
The shooting, which was caught on multiple videos, alarmed Colombians who have not seen this kind of political violence against presidential candidates since Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar declared war on the state in the 1990s.
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