Who was Miguel Uribe Turbay, the presidential candidate of the Álvaro Uribe party in Colombia who died 2 months after an attack

The man was syndicated as the leader of a criminal cell hired to execute the armed attack. According to the Attorney General's Office, he allegedly was responsible for recruiting those involved and planning the commission.

The investigation of the case, which has generated shock in Colombia, has already led to the capture of four others involved, including a 14 -year -old teenager who is accused of being the material author of the shots that hurt Uribe Turbay.

The attack on the senator occurred in the midst of the tensions caused by President Gustavo Petro in Colombia for carrying out a popular consultation by decree, an initiative that was widely rejected by several sectors of the political spectrum and from which, approved its labor reform, Petro himself gave up.

Colombia will hold presidential elections in 2026.

Uribe Turbay was born in Bogotá in 1986.

Their last names and ancestry are well known in Colombia.

He was grandson of the Colombian president Julio Turbay, who ruled from 1978 to 1982 for the Liberal Party.

He was also the son of Diana Turbay, a journalist who was kidnapped by the Los Extraditable Group, commanded by Pablo Escobar, in the midst of the excapo of the Medellín cartel to the Colombian government.

Turbay died in 1991 after receiving an impact of lethal firearm in the midst of an alleged rescue attempt.

Then Uribe Turbay was just five years old. Now, 34 years later, the same destination ran.

Lawyer of the University of Los Andes and with public policies masters at this university and another public administration at the Harvard Government School, Uribe Turbay began his political career in 2012.

With 26 years, he was elected councilor of Bogotá by the Colombian Liberal Party.

During the mayor of Enrique Peñalosa, he was appointed Secretary of Government in 2016.

Two years later, “the international organization One Young World recognized him as one of the 10 most influential young politicians worldwide,” says the Colombian Senate website.

In 2019, Uribe presented his candidacy for mayor of Bogotá with the independent movement “We advance”, in a struggle that Claudia López would finally win, who launched his presidential candidacy for the next 2026 elections.

“In 2022, he headed the list of the Democratic Center to the Senate, invited by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and became the most voted senator in the country with 226,922 votes,” according to the Senate.

Uribe Turbay was a usual critic of President Petro's policies, the first of the left in the modern history of Colombia.

The Senate emphasizes that Uribe Turbay addressed issues of economics, employment, security and strengthening of the public force and that during his period promoted laws to improve access to essential services, such as education and health, especially in remote regions.

A few hours before the attack, Uribe Turbay said in a video posted in X that he would demand by prevaricate the ministers who signed the decree with which Petro intended to launch a popular consultation in Colombia.

An hour earlier, the president had said in the same social network that “Minister who does not sign the presidential decree immediately leaves.”

Several jurists and opposition members stated for those days that encouraging a popular consultation by decree, with which Petro intended to win and demonstrate support for their change reforms in Colombia, could create a constitutional crisis in the country.

The so -called “Decretazo” was the great theme of that tense week in Colombia, which ended with the attack on a presidential candidate.

A barbarism that for many indicated times already overcome. Until today.

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