On July 7, 2025, Miguel Uribe Turbay He was at a political event in El Golfito park in Bogotá. After 5 in the afternoon, a 15-year-old hitman caused several wounds with a modified weapon. On August 11 of that year, the political leader died at the Santa Fe Foundation.
In an interview with Caracol News, María Claudia Tarazona, widow of the murdered senator, He assured that he received information on his cell phone about the possibility that the assassination order came from Congress with money from Venezuela.
READ ALSO
Statements by María Claudia Tarazona
María Claudia Tarazona and Miguel Uribe Turbay. Photo:Taken from social networks.
More than a year after his death, The woman continues to seek definitive answers about the intellectual authors of one of the assassinations most important in Colombian politics.
“The information that I received, that I went to the Prosecutor’s Office, that I delivered it with all the due protocols, that is now a matter of investigation and that of course we are waiting for this line of investigation to be opened, is that the order for Miguel’s assassination came from the Congress of the Republic,” declared the woman in the interview Caracol News.
Apparently, a person whose identity he said he could not reveal He gave him information about the assassination of Miguel Uribe.
READ ALSO
According to Tarazona, the information indicates “that the candidate Miguel Uribe and Possibly other Democratic Center candidates are going to be murdered, that the money left Venezuela and the order came from Congress.”
The information reached María Claudia Tarazona’s cell phone and was delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office. “At this moment we are waiting for this line of investigation to be opened,” He said while adding that a specialized group from the entity is corroborating where the information came from.
communication would have the names of the people involved and their photographs, while they wait for the results of the investigation.
READ ALSO
“It is very serious to think that there was information prior to the attack, but we are waiting for the veracity of these facts that reached us to be corroborated,” he concluded.
Statement by Álvaro Uribe
Former President Álvaro Uribe. Photo:Democratic Center
Former president Álvaro Uribe, honorary president of the Democratic Center and personal friend of Miguel Uribe, He published a video asking that Tarazona be protected.
“The pain of the murder of our comrade and great leader Miguel Uribe Turbay does not pass, and today everything is relived”he assured while pointing out the “concern” that the woman’s complaint generates.
“Please, all support for María Claudia, all protection and this assassination be discovered”he concluded.
READ ALSO
The case of the assassination of Miguel Uribe He already has several people convicted and it was known that the Second Marquetalia would be behind the material authors, one of the main dissidents of the FARC.
However, the intellectual authors of the case and all those responsible for the assassination have not yet been fully established. It will be the Prosecutor’s Office that determines the veracity of the information provided by Tarazona.
Raúl Andrés García Suárez
Editorial Latest News
raugar@eltiempo.com
