Late Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe received a state funeral at Bogota Cathedral on Wednesday.

A large crowd watched on as Uribe's coffin was carried into the cathedral in the Colombian capital.

The 39-year-old opposition conservative senator and presidential hopeful had died on Monday after being shot at a political rally two months ago.

Uribe was shot three times while giving a campaign speech in Bogota and had been in intensive care since the attack.

The shooting, which was caught on multiple videos, alarmed Colombians who have not seen this kind of political violence against presidential candidates since Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar declared war on the state in the 1990s.

Uribe’s own mother, well-known journalist Diana Turbay, was among the victims of that period. She died during a police rescue after being kidnapped by a group of drug traffickers led by Escobar seeking to block their extradition to the United States.

Uribe, a lawyer with a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University, entered politics as a councilman for Bogota when he was 26. In 2022, he was the biggest vote-getter in the conservative Democratic Center party led by former President Álvaro Uribe.

The senator was among the strongest critics of Colombia’s current government. In October, he joined the list of politicians seeking to replace Gustavo Petro, the first leftist to govern Colombia, in the May 2026 elections.

Authorities have floated several hypotheses about what led to the attack, while allies of the candidate have complained that the government ignored repeated requests to reinforce his state-provided security detail.

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