Colombia Presidential Compete Miguel Orepe, wound Politics News

Senator’s wife says he is “fighting for his life” after he was shot at a campaign in Bogota.

The Colombian Senator Miguel Urby, a possible candidate in the country’s presidential elections next year, was shot by the country’s capital, Bogota, according to the authorities.

His wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, said on X.

Orepe is a member of the opposition Conservative Democratic Center party, founded by former Colombian President Alvaro Urby.

The two men are not connected.

The Democratic Center Party issued a statement called “unacceptable violence act.”

She said that Senator was hosting a campaign event in a public park in the Funpon neighborhood in the capital when he was “armed topics” from behind.

He described the attack as dangerous, but he did not reveal more details about the case of Urby.

A medical report from the Santa Hospital at the Santa Foundation said that the Senator was accepted in a critical condition and is subject to “nerve vascular procedures and peripheral vessels.”

Videos on social media showed a man, identified as Urby, and tended to him after the shooting. He seemed to bleed from his head.

The Office of the Public Prosecutor in Colombia, which was investigating the shooting, said that the Senator received two wounds in the attack, which hit two others. The statement issued by the office said that a 15 -year -old boy was arrested at the scene of the accident.

The government said it provided about $ 730,000 as a reward for information in the case.

The Presidency of Colombia issued a statement saying that the government “categorically and forcefully” rejected the violent attack, and called for a comprehensive investigation into the events that took place.

Left President Gustavo Petro sympathized with the Senator’s family in a message about X, and said: “Respecting life, this is the red line … in solidarity with the Orbie family and the Turbay family. I don’t know how to relieve their pain.”

In a speech on Saturday night, Petro said that the investigation would focus on finding those who requested the attack.

“For the time being, there is nothing more than hypotheses,” Petro said, adding that security protocols will also be considered.

The United States Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said in a statement that the United States “owes the strongest possible terms to try to assassinate Urby, and blamed” inflammation discourse “for justifying violence.

Reactions flowed from all over Latin America. “There is no room or justification for violence in democracy.” “We condemn all forms of violence and intolerance.”

Both presidents provided solidarity to the Senator family.

In Colombia, former President Urby said, “They attacked the hope of the country, a great husband, father, son, brother, great colleague.”

Orepe, who is not yet an official presidential candidate for his party, is from a prominent family in Colombia.

His father was a businessman and leader of the union. His mother, journalist Diana Turai, was kidnapped in 1990 by an armed group under the leadership of the late Cartel leader Pablo Escobar.

It was killed during a rescue operation in 1991.

Colombia has been involved in decades in a struggle between the left -wing rebels, and criminal groups descended from the right -wing forces and the government.