Miguel Uribe , a Colombian senator who was vying for his party’s candidacy in upcoming presidential elections, died on Monday, two months after being shot at a campaign rally. He was 39.

Uribe, a father and stepfather, was shot in the head while giving a campaign speech on June 7 and underwent multiple surgeries during his subsequent hospital stay.

He had shown some improvement during July, but his condition worsened over the past weekend due to a hemorrhage in his central nervous system, the hospital treating him said on Sunday. 7

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The assassination has evoked memories of intense political violence in Colombia’s past. In the 1980s and 1990s, four presidential candidates were murdered in separate attacks blamed on drug cartels allied with right-wing paramilitary death squads

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