The death of Miguel Uribe, two months after the attack against him, marks a return to the worst period of political violence in Colombia.

Miguel Uribe Turbay, a senator and presidential candidate, has died after spending two months in the ICU after being shot during a rally by a minor who was acting as a hitman.

I t took Judge Sandra Heredia over ten hours on July 28th to read her judgment in the case against Álvaro Uribe, Colombia’s president from 2002 to 2010. Her verdict, when it came, was that he was guilty of arranging the bribing of witnesses and of perverting justice.