{"id":478334,"date":"2025-08-13T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/colombia-says-goodbye-to-miguel-uribe-turbay\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:01:23","slug":"colombia-says-goodbye-to-miguel-uribe-turbay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/colombia-says-goodbye-to-miguel-uribe-turbay\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia says goodbye to Miguel Uribe Turbay"},"content":{"rendered":"Bogot\u00e1<\/strong>.- With a solemn mass in the Primada Cathedral and military honors, Colombia gave a massive farewell to Senator and opposition presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died on Monday, after battling for two months injured in an attack in Bogot\u00e1.\n\nThe Eucharist was officiated by the Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Luis Jos\u00e9 Rueda<\/a>, in the presence of former presidents C\u00e9sar Gaviria (1990-1994), Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) and Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), as well as former Vice President Marta Luc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez, but with the total absence of representation from President Gustavo Petro’s Government at the family’s request.\n\n\n
You can also read: <\/a><\/a>Magnicides in Colombia: a trail of blood in politics<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

“Miguel no quer\u00eda que se repitiera lo que \u00e9l tuvo que vivir a sus cuatro a\u00f1os y que dolorosamente hoy mi hijo amado, Alejandro, est\u00e1 viviendo, ese mismo pasado que Miguel no quer\u00eda que volviera y que hoy golpea a nuestra familia de la manera m\u00e1s cruda y m\u00e1s cruel”<\/p>dijo su esposa Mar\u00eda Claudia Tarazona.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nMiguel Uribe Londo\u00f1o, father of the assassinated politician, relived the moments he experienced 34 years ago at the funeral of Diana Turbay, murdered during a rescue attempt after being held for six months by the Medell\u00edn cartel.\n\n\n

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“Today, 34 years later, this absurd violence also takes away from me that same boy who became a good man, loving husband, exemplary father, and honest and brave leader: Miguel Uribe Turbay. Today, 34 years later, we also had to tell my grandson Alejandro, Miguel’s four-year-old son, that his father was also murdered,” he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Alejandro, el hijo de Uribe Turbay, de solo cuatro a\u00f1os, se acerc\u00f3 al f\u00e9retro cubierto con la bandera de Colombia.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\nAlso attending to bid farewell to the senator from the right-wing Centro Democr\u00e1tico party were a representation of the U.S. government, formed by the Under Secretary of State, Christopher Landau; Republican Senator Bernie Moreno and the head of the diplomatic mission of that country in Bogot\u00e1, John T. McNamara.\n\n\n
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Bogot\u00e1.- With a solemn mass in the Primada Cathedral and military honors, Colombia gave a massive farewell to Senator and opposition presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died on Monday, after battling for two months injured in an attack in Bogot\u00e1. The Eucharist was officiated by the Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Luis Jos\u00e9 Rueda, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":478336,"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],"class_list":{"0":"post-478334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-colombia"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/UJBO23QJ6RKGZFMVC7KX3FMSX4.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20r4","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/UJBO23QJ6RKGZFMVC7KX3FMSX4.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478334","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\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}