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.

Miguel Uribe, who was shot in the head at a campaign event two months ago, died at the age of 39, the hospital treating him said.

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.