Colombia: President Petro sends condolences to family and friends of the deceased senator Miguel Uribe

Published at: 11/08/2025 03:46 PM

This Monday, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, through a statement, sent his sincerest condolences to family, friends and the people for the death of senator and former candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, during the early morning of this Monday.

Here is the full statement:

My heartfelt condolences to the family of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, and to all Colombians.

Life is above any ideology.

I wanted to mark a new paradigm, even a theoretical one, in my government, by placing the project of care and the expansion of life, as the number one priority of the objectives to be achieved and as the structuring axis of all our action.

We did it precisely in a country that is experiencing an immense paradox: to be the space with the greatest natural and human diversity on the planet and, at the same time, to be one of the countries with the most permanent violence, where people kill without any sense.

Violence in Colombia has been defeated over the past few decades.

After a political genocide unleashed between liberals and conservatives, which left 300,000 peasants dead, after another political genocide, committed against the country's left, we have moved on to violence centered on illegal economies, which is increasingly cornered at borders and ports.

But death gives us surprises and still assails us.

In a progressive, life-loving government, there has been an attack with a tragic ending against an opposition senator.

Its causes, still under investigation, mark, for now, a very different path from the one that, initially and in a biased way, was insinuated.

The investigation must be deepened. And it will be the competent authorities for it, assisted by international experts, who will speak out in due course.

It remains for the government to repudiate the crime and help.

Regardless of any ideology, the individual and his family, his life and his security are, for the government, the priority.

We have not persecuted any member of the opposition, nor will we.

For us, who have been persecuted and our friends killed, it is one of our priorities.

It's not revenge, Colombia's path. Out of revenge, we have experienced decades of violence. No more.

That's why we're sad, Miguel's death hurts us, as if he were one of our own. It's a defeat. Every time a murdered Colombian falls, it is a defeat for Colombia and for Life.

So what's left is to grieve and move on.

Mazo News Team