Miguel Uribe Turbay

Law enforcement officials in Colombia announced on Tuesday the arrest of the ninth suspect in the assassination of conservative presidential frontrunner Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, noting that the latest evidence indicates that the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were involved in the planning of the killing.

Colombian conservative Congressman Julio César Triana survived an attack on Wednesday night after his vehicle came under fire by unknown individuals as he left the Southwestern city of La Plata, Huila.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro chose to not pay respects to conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay at the Colombian Congress, where he has been lying in state, and will not attend Uribe’s burial on Wednesday afternoon, local outlets reported.

Colombians gathered at the nation’s Congress to mourn and pay tribute to conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died on Monday following a difficult two-month fight for his life after he was shot by a child in June.

The Office of the Inspector General of Colombia announced on Tuesday that a 17-year-old Venezuelan linked to the assassination attempt against conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay “escaped” from the government welfare institute where he was receiving assistance on Monday.

Growing threats to democracy in Colombia are being fueled in part by a cocaine boom under a Marxist president, Colombian Senator Paloma Valencia told Breitbart News on Wednesday, urging America to help fight the influence of criminal drug gangs.

Colombian authorities reportedly identified a Marxist FARC leader as a mastermind behind the failed assassination of conservative Senator Miguel Uribe.

Colombia’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, on Friday morning rejected a lawsuit filed by two Colombian unions against conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who has reportedly not awakened since being shot in the head this month.

Dozens of Colombian citizens and lawmakers gathered outside the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá on Monday evening to pray for conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, who remains in “extremely critical” condition after surviving an assassination attempt by a teen boy in early June.

The Colombian magazine Semana on Saturday revealed details of the testimony that the teen boy detained for shooting conservative Senator Miguel Uribe gave to local authorities.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Monday acknowledged that the 14-year-old arrested for shooting conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was part of his administration’s struggling “Youth in Peace” social program

The attorney representing the family of conservative Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was shot in the head during a campaign event, revealed on Monday that the lawmaker had requested more security over 35 times in response to death threats, but the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro ignored them.