Members of the Presidential Guard escort the coffin with the body of late Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe after a funeral mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Bogota on August 13, 2025. LUIS ACOSTA / AFP
Colombians on Wednesday, August 13, bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died more than two months after being shot during a political rally in the South American country's capital.
Family, friends, members of Congress and a delegation of government officials from the United States honored Uribe, whose coffin was draped with Colombia's flag. The 39-year-old died Monday in the hospital where he had been since the June 7 shooting. Thousands of mourners paid their respects on Tuesday.
"The bullets that took his life not only broke the hearts of his family, they reopened the fractures of a country that has yet to find peace," Senate president Lidio García said, referring to Colombia's long history of violence against politicians.
As Colombia reels from the assassination, conservative lawmaker Julio Cesar Triana, a vocal critic of the government, escaped unharmed after his vehicle came under fire in the southern Huila region, where dissident members of the defunct FARC guerrilla group are operating.
