Overview

• Medical teams at Bogotá’s Santa-Fe Hospital report Uribe’s brain hemorrhage has pushed him into a life-threatening state requiring additional neurosurgical intervention.
• During a campaign rally in early June the opposition senator was struck twice in the head and once in the knee by an assailant.
• Authorities have arrested six individuals suspected of orchestrating the attack, including a roughly 15-year-old youth believed to have been hired by ex-FARC members.
• Days after the assassination attempt coordinated assaults on government facilities in southwestern provinces claimed at least seven lives and stoked fears of renewed armed conflict.
• Uribe’s critical condition and the ongoing probe intensify security concerns under President Gustavo Petro’s administration ahead of next year’s election.