Colombian senator in ‘extraordinarily essential situation’ after being shot

Medical doctors treating Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay have warned that he’s in an “extraordinarily essential situation” after being shot within the head 10 days in the past.

Uribe underwent emergency surgical procedure on Monday to stem a bleed to the mind, based on a hospital assertion.

His spouse mentioned that the hours after the operation can be essential and requested Colombians to wish for his restoration.

The June 7 assault on Uribe has shocked Colombians, who turned out of their tens of hundreds to attend silent protests held throughout the nation on Sunday.

“Miguel continues to battle for his life like by no means earlier than,” his spouse, María Claudia Tarazona, mentioned exterior Santa Fe hospital, the place he’s being handled.

“We want all of the prayers and phrases of affection. It is love is maintaining him alive.”

The 39-year-old conservative senator, who was searching for his occasion’s nomination for the 2026 presidential election, was shot 3 times at an occasion within the capital Bogota.

A teenage suspect was arrested as he was fleeing the scene. The 15-year-old has been charged with tried homicide and pleaded not responsible.

A person accused of offering the shooter with the gun has additionally been detained in addition to a girl suspected of offering “logistical assist” for the assault.

Nonetheless, police are nonetheless making an attempt to find out the potential motive for the assault and who could have ordered it.

The brazen assault on the politician – in broad daylight as he was giving a speech in a middle-class neighbourhood in Bogota – has introduced again reminiscences of the turbulent many years of the Eighties and 90s in Colombia, when a number of presidential candidates and influential Colombian figures have been assassinated.

Uribe’s personal mom, journalist Diana Turbay, was kidnapped by Los Extraditables in 1990 – an alliance created by main drug lords.

She was held hostage by them for 5 months earlier than being shot lifeless throughout a botched rescue try.

Uribe usually cited her as his inspiration to run for political workplace “to work for our nation”.

Los Extraditables, who’ve mentioned they would like a grave in Colombia to a jail cell within the US, kidnapped and attacked famend Colombians in an try and drive the federal government on the time to overturn its extradition treaty with the US.