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Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay in 'critical condition' after attempted assassination - as 15-year-old suspect arrested
Sky News ^ | 6/8/2025

Posted on 06/08/2025 1:08:57 PM PDT by Vesuvian

A 15 year-old-boy has been arrested after a Colombian senator running to be the country's next president was shot and "critically" injured at a campaign rally in Bogota, authorities have said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassinationplot; colombia; migueluribeturbay; turbay; uribe
Terrible, like what happened to President Trump.
1 posted on 06/08/2025 1:08:57 PM PDT by Vesuvian
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To: Vesuvian

Yep...by the same types too


2 posted on 06/08/2025 1:12:00 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Vesuvian

From the article:

“Mr Uribe Turbay, who announced his presidential bid for the right-wing Democratic Center Party in March”

Gunman captured alive for questioning.

Senator Turbay survived his initial operation at the hospital.


3 posted on 06/08/2025 1:19:31 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Vesuvian

From the article:

“Mr Uribe Turbay, who announced his presidential bid for the right-wing Democratic Center Party in March”

Gunman captured alive for questioning.

Senator Turbay survived his initial operation at the hospital.


4 posted on 06/08/2025 1:19:31 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

I believe that several years ago a Mexican presidential candidate was shot and killed while campaigning.


5 posted on 06/08/2025 1:21:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Vesuvian
Sky News - Mr Uribe Turbay, who announced his presidential bid for the right-wing Democratic Center Party in March, was accompanied by a team of 21 people at the time of the shooting, his office said, including councilman Andres Barrios.

He was hoping to run in the presidential elections taking place on 31 May next year - and succeed Mr Petro, the country's first leftist leader.

His mother, who was a journalist, was kidnapped and killed in 1991 during one of the most violent periods in Colombia's history.

6 posted on 06/08/2025 1:25:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Vesuvian

Note the headline ..15 year old “boy”...in biological reality...more like a young man . Note how the media work in the matrix of false narrative. You see, it’s just an innocent “boy”, not a vicious, violent young man.


7 posted on 06/08/2025 3:02:01 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: Getready

Cartels can get juvenile assassins much cheaper, I imagine.


8 posted on 06/08/2025 3:23:06 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

9 posted on 06/08/2025 10:52:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Vesuvian
Update, with a big FWIW considering the source...

EXCLUSIVEArizona gun shop at center of plot to assassinate Colombian presidential candidate

Anyone else wondering just how the DM came to get their exclusive...

10 posted on 06/10/2025 4:17:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: VanShuyten

Patsies, too...


11 posted on 06/10/2025 4:18:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Vesuvian

According to his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona the Colombian senator and preidential candidate Miguel Uribe passed away today, more than two months after the shooting.

RIP.


12 posted on 08/11/2025 4:07:32 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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