Colombian Presidential Hopeful Dies Two Months After Assassination Attempt

Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay died after spending two months in a coma following an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Bogotá. He was shot three times, including twice in the head, by a 15-year-old assailant who was arrested at the scene, with several others apprehended for involvement in the attack. Authorities have arrested a suspected mastermind, Elder José Arteaga Hernández, but investigations suggest drug cartels or a dissident guerrilla faction may be behind the killing. Uribe, a conservative figure and critic of the current government, came from a politically prominent family; his mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed during a 1991 police rescue operation after being kidnapped by Pablo Escobar's cartel. The attack has reopened wounds from Colombia's violent past marked by political assassinations and cartel violence in the 1980s and 1990s. His death has sparked national mourning and renewed fears of a resurgence of political violence.