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Bogotá.- A criminal judge in Bogotá sentenced Carlos Eduardo Mora, alias El veneco, one of those involved in the assassination of Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died on August 11, two months after being seriously injured in an attack in Bogotá, to 21 years in prison.
According to the Attorney General's Office, "Mora González was involved in the logistical organization of the attack, and drove and made available a vehicle (...) in which the firearm was delivered to the teenager who subsequently shot the victim."
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Mora, who is imprisoned in a Bogota jail, was convicted of the crimes of aggravated homicide; aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime; and manufacturing, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition, also aggravated. Nine people have been arrested in this case, including the minor who shot at the politician, and who was "sanctioned" on August 27 with seven years of deprivation of liberty for the crimes of attempted murder and manufacturing, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms. Another of those involved in the case, Katherine Andrea Martínez, alias Gabriela, was also sentenced in February to 21 years and two months in prison. Uribe Turbay, 39 years old, was a senator for the right-wing Democratic Center party and was emerging as a presidential candidate for the elections on May 31st. After being seriously injured in the attack on June 7, Uribe Turbay died on August 11 after two months in the hospital at the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic in Bogotá. The attack, considered the first assassination of a presidential candidate in more than three decades, shook the electoral campaign and revived fears that Colombia would repeat episodes of political violence like those of 1990, when candidates Luis Carlos Galán, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa and Carlos Pizarro were assassinated.
