Overview

• Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in the head during a June 7 rally in Bogota and remains in critical condition after undergoing emergency brain surgery.
• Colombian authorities have charged a 15-year-old suspect with attempted murder and are investigating who commissioned the attack on the presidential hopeful.
• Police say the alleged teenage gunman used a Glock pistol legally purchased in Arizona in 2020, highlighting worries over illicit weapons trafficking.
• On June 10, coordinated car and motorcycle bombings and gun attacks in Cali and surrounding towns killed at least seven people and injured dozens in operations blamed on a dissident FARC faction.
• The violence has revived fears of a return to the bloodshed of the 1980s and 1990s and intensified criticism of the government’s inability to secure peace ahead of the 2026 election.