Conservative senator Miguel Uibe, candidate for the presidency of Colombia for the May 2026 election, was injured by bullet on Saturday June 7 in Bogota, in what the federal government described as“Attack”.
A video printed on social networks reveals the 39 -year -old politician within the means of talking a speech throughout a marketing campaign assembly within the west of the capital when gunshots. On different photos, we see him mendacity on the roof of a automobile, the bloody physique.
The mayor of Bogota, Carlos Galan, mentioned he was “Emergency treated” and that “The shooter was arrested”. The authorities of the left president, Gustavo Petro, denounced “Categorically and energetically the attack” Against M. Uibe. “This act of violence is an attack not only against the physical integrity of the senator, but also against democracy, freedom of thought and the legitimate exercise of politics in Colombia”underlined the presidency in its press launch.
An opponent of the president
Mr. Uibe belongs to the occasion of the Democratic Center, whose chief is the influential former president, Alvaro Uibe, who dominated Colombia between 2002 and 2010. He introduced final October that he aspired to be elected president in 2026 to succeed Mr. Petro, of which he’s a eager detractor.
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the assault and introduced on the social community X that the authorities provided an award of round 700,000 {dollars} for any info to seize officers. “I sincerely hope it is doing well and is out of danger”wrote the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laura Sarabia, on the social community X.
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/06/08/colombie-un-senateur-conservateur-candidat-a-la-presidence-blesse-par-balle-lors-d-un-discours_6611127_3210.html