Posted on 08/11/2025 4:53:51 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Miguel Uribe, a Colombian senator who was vying for his party's candidacy in upcoming presidential elections, died on Monday, two months after being shot at a campaign rally. He was 39.
Uribe, a father and stepfather, was shot in the head while giving a campaign speech on June 7 and underwent multiple surgeries during his subsequent hospital stay.
He had shownsome improvement during July, but his condition worsened over the past weekend due to a hemorrhagein his central nervous system, the hospital treating him said on Sunday.
The assassination has evoked memories of intense political violence in Colombia's past. In the 1980s and 1990s, four presidential candidates were murdered in separate attacks blamed on drug cartels allied with right-wing paramilitary death squads.
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In the 2022 legislative elections, Uribe led the Senate slate for the Democratic Center party with the slogan "Colombia First," winning a seat in the chamber.
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Columbia is a dangerous place to oppose some really corrupt powerful forces.
God rest his soul, and comfort the family.
Kind of surprised he made it this long.
Did the cops capture the assassin? What’s his status now?
I am not sure. But that was common place going back a long time.
Drug Cartels and hit squads are the Devil’s brew.
“...attacks blamed on drug cartels allied with right-wing paramilitary death squads...”
Sure, and the Bolsheviks that murdered the Tsar and his family were “right-wing”.
The Hutu Tutsi genocide were right-wing.
The Mao Tse Tung movement in China were right-wing.
It’s always the “right” wing, never the Left-wing. /spit
I have not heard anything about that. But there is a photo in one article I read that showed the gun aimed at his head.
Suspect they caught him, just guessing. His family has stood up to a number of evil groups. Other members of family were assassinated.
This was the best article I could find.
I looked at BBC, it was it’s usual crap.
It is a shame that the largest established news media, is nothing but propaganda.
It has not always been that way.
When I was young, there were a lot of good regional newspapers that actually were pretty honest.
Those days are gone. AP was the death of real news. The Press has become the Press-titutes, they do it for the money.
“Columbia is a dangerous place to oppose some really corrupt powerful forces.”
No kidding. Good thing that doesn’t happen here. Oh wait...
Funny you shoould write that. That was exactly what Miguel Uribe's (suspected) murderer shouted:
An earlier video showed that as the suspect, who was wounded, attempted to escape the scene, a voice could be heard shouting, “I did it for the money, for my family.”
It will be interesting to see how the violent crimes in DC change after President Trump brought in more law enforcement agents.
No BS. Just stop crime.
I made up the term “They have become the Press-titutes, they do it for the money”.
I just checked my scratch pad note file, Mar 24, 2019.
This is the evolution of left wing politics gravitating into the ‘final’ solution mode. We can see it unfolding in this country right now before our eyes. The Left’s treasonous coup against Trump and America, which was to disrupt the People’s Government peaceful transfer of power displayed this totalitarian streak and when this effort failed they went to the assassin’s playbook at Butler. It’s tragic that the Left is driving this country into third world chaos. Left wing policies are an anathema to freedom loving people, so brutal methods of controlling the populace becomes their only recourse.
Back to the old days in Colombia?
Did they have colorful riots that started with the traditional bombing of the American Embassy?
There is a great blow back on them over that.
And President Trump is a great take charge person, now. After they attempted to assassinate him, he changed. That will not reverse.
We are on the right path. But the opposition is both foreign and domestic.
They tried to do this very same thing to Trump. Thank God for protecting him.
Amen
That could have been Trump.
Came close.
He did have good secret service people.
Thomas Matthew Crooks did not do this alone. I hope they already have them and are in silence mode.
Same with the 2nd attempt.
Trump is not doing this own his own. God chose him to do this. He knows it.
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