Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe died as a result of serious injuries sustained in the attack in June

Colombiansenator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay  died today, according to his wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, who was shot in the head in an attack on June 7 in Bogotá. 

"I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you," Tarazona wrote on her social media, adding, "Rest in peace, I will take care of our children," along with a picture of them both.

Uribe Turbay, 39, senator of the right-wing party , who had been admitted to the clinic of the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá since the day of the attack, has undergone a series of surgical interventions that, although improved, have never overcome the critical situation.

Last Saturday, the clinic reported that the politician had suffered a hemorrhage in the nervous system and his condition had worsened.

Uribe Turbay wasshot twice in the head  and another in the left leg as he held a political rally in a park in the Modelia district of Bogotá ahead of the 2026 presidential election.

Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro , has described the death of the opposition senator as a "failure" for the entire country. "That's why we're sad, Miguel's death hurts us as if it were ours. It's a failure. Every time he's a dead Colombian, it's a failure of Colombia and life.

The president has stressed that "life is above any ideology," and has lamented the "murder of an opposition senator in a progressive government that loves life."