{"id":478208,"date":"2025-08-12T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/with-white-handkerchiefs-they-receive-miguel-uribes-coffin-at-the-capitol-of-colombia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:03:31","slug":"with-white-handkerchiefs-they-receive-miguel-uribes-coffin-at-the-capitol-of-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/with-white-handkerchiefs-they-receive-miguel-uribes-coffin-at-the-capitol-of-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"With white handkerchiefs they receive Miguel Uribe’s coffin at the Capitol of Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"Bogot\u00e1.- <\/strong>The coffin of Senator and Colombian presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay<\/a><\/strong>, who died this Monday as a result of an attack suffered two months ago, was received tonight with a funeral march and white handkerchiefs in the Elliptical Hall of the National Capitol<\/strong> where he will be watched until next Wednesday.\n\nCovered with the flag of Colombia and carried by National Police officers, the coffin entered the Capitol through Plaza N\u00fa\u00f1ez, which connects with the Casa de Nari\u00f1o, presidential headquarters, and behind it were his wife, Mar\u00eda Claudia Tarazona; his father, Miguel Uribe Londo\u00f1o; his sister Mar\u00eda Claudia Hoyos Turbay and other relatives.\n\nOnce inside, the coffin was installed in front of the presidency tribune of the Congress, flanked by soldiers from the Presidential Guard Battalion, and the national anthem of Colombia was played to begin the lying-in-state.\n\n\n
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“With deep sorrow and sadness we say goodbye today to a great friend, a great colleague,” said the first vice president of the Senate, Ana Paula Agudelo, who made “an energetic call for progress in the investigations and for justice to be done in the face of this assassination that has moved the country.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote\n\n\nFor his part, the president of the House of Representatives, Juli\u00e1n David L\u00f3pez, pointed out that Colombia “will not yield an inch to violence” so that events like the one that cost the life of Uribe Turbay, 39 years old and senator of the right-wing Democratic Center party, are not repeated.\n\n\n

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Former Presidents and Diplomats Pay Honors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nA sentence spoken by a Catholic priest gave way to a minute of silence with a bugle call as part of the military honors.\n\nAmong those attending the Capitol tonight to pay tribute to the memory of the politician, praised for “his dedication to public service and his commitment to the country”, were former presidents C\u00e9sar Gaviria (1990-1994) and Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), accompanied by his wife Mar\u00eda Clemencia Rodr\u00edguez and Esteban, one of their sons.\n\nAlso in attendance were congressmen from different political parties, the mayor of Bogot\u00e1, Carlos Fernando Gal\u00e1n; the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Colombia, John T. McNamara, and the independent presidential pre-candidate Juan Daniel Oviedo, among others.\n\nThe only members of the national government present at the ceremony were the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, and the director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), Angie Rodr\u00edguez, who arrived when the honors ceremony had already begun.\n\nAccording to local media, before Benedetti and Rodr\u00edguez entered the building, the widow and her children, apparently displeased with their presence, left the El\u00edptico Hall.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Colombian government decrees a day of mourning in memory of Miguel Uribe Turbay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\u00abHe was a wonderful man who dreamed of peace and the union of Colombia, of a country where no child would repeat the history that his son is repeating today. Breaking up a family is the most horrible act of violence that can ever be committed,\u00bb Tarazona declared to the press before the arrival of the coffin.\n\n\n

Miguel Uribe will be mourned for three days in the Capitol<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nUribe Turbay was seriously injured with two shots to the head and one more in the left leg on June 7th, when he was speaking to a group of supporters in a park in the Bogot\u00e1 neighborhood of Modelia.\n\n\n
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For 64 days he remained in critical condition at the Santa Fe de Bogot\u00e1 Foundation where he died at 01:56 local time (06:56 GMT) this Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe coffin will remain in a burning chamber in the Capitol until noon on Wednesday, when it will be moved to the Primate Cathedral of Colombia for the funeral.\n\nIn that same Elliptical Hall, tributes were paid to his grandfather, former President Julio C\u00e9sar Turbay (1978-1982), who died on September 13, 2005, at the age of 89, and more recently to his grandmother, Nydia Quintero, who died on June 30 of this year at 93.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bogot\u00e1.- The coffin of Senator and Colombian presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this Monday as a result of an attack suffered two months ago, was received tonight with a funeral march and white handkerchiefs in the Elliptical Hall of the National Capitol where he will be watched until next Wednesday. Covered with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13631,41147],"class_list":{"0":"post-478208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-miguel-uribe-turbay"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-97.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20p2","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-97.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}