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The attempted assassination of the presidential hope rocked the country, which fears a return to darker days.
Colombian senator Miguel Uribay Turbay In an extremely critical condition would be in an extremely critical state after having undergone surgery to take care of cerebral bleeding, just over a week after being shot in the head during a campaign event.
The attack was part of an eruption of violence that fueled the fears of a return to the darkest days of assassinations and bombing.
The Santa Fe Foundation hospital said on Monday that Uibe was stable after undergoing an “complementary” operation to his initial surgery, but had remained in serious critical condition.
He added that an urgent neurological procedure had been necessary due to clinical evidence and imaging showing acute inter-cerebral bleeding, but that swelling of the brain persisted and that bleeding remained difficult to control.
The 39 -year presidential potential candidate of the right opposition was shot dead twice on June 7 during a rally in Bogota.
The assassination attempt, which was taken on video, recalled a sequence of candidate assassinations in the 1980s and 1990s, an era when fighting between armed rebels, paramilitary groups, drug traffickers and state security forces have affected many Colombians.
Three suspects, including an alleged 15 -year -old shooter, are in detention. An adult man and woman are also detained.
The 15 -year -old boy, who, according to the police, was a “sicario” or a throat killer working for money, was billed last week With the attempted murder of Uibe, to which he pleaded not guilty. He was also accused of having worn a firearm.
The adult man, Carlos Eduardo Mora, was charged with an alleged involvement in the planning of the attack, providing the weapon and being in the vehicle where the shooter changed his clothes after the attack, according to the office of the Attorney General.
Uibe is a senator for the party of the Conservative Democratic Center and one of the many candidates who hope to succeed the left president Gustavo Petro during the presidential vote of 2026.
He comes from an eminent political family. His grandfather, Julio Cesar Turbay, was president from 1978 to 1982, and her mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed in 1991 in an attempt to save sailed after being kidnapped by an armed group led by the Cartel Drug Lord Pablo Escobar.
Friday, the main dissident faction of the former revolutionary of the Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) denied the responsibility of the attack on Uribe on Friday, although it accepted the responsibility of an unrelated series of bombing attacks.
Southwest Colombia was shaken by a series of explosions and firearms attacks Last week which left at least seven dead. The attacks struck Cali, the third largest city in the country, and the neighboring cities of Corinto, El Bordo and Jamundi, targeting the police stations and other municipal buildings with bombs by car and motorbike, a rifle fire and a suspected drone.
The government of Colombia has struggled to contain violence in urban and rural areas while several rebel groups try to resume the territory abandoned by the FARC after its peace agreement with the government.
The peace talks between the FARC-EMC faction and the government broken down last year after a series of attacks on indigenous communities.
