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The alleged mastermind down the shooting of blimpish Colombian senator and statesmanlike campaigner Miguel Uribe Turbay was taken into custody Saturday, astir a period aft the attack, instrumentality enforcement authorities said.
Elder José Arteaga Hernández, who uses the aliases "Chipi" oregon "Costeño," was arrested successful a vicinity successful the northwestern portion of the capital, Bogota, National Police Director Maj. Gen. Carlos Fernando Triana told reporters.
Authorities had antecedently accused Arteaga and different suspects of being adjacent the Bogota parkland wherever Uribe was shot successful wide daylight connected June 7. Three different radical person been arrested for participating successful the logistics and execution of the crime.
Charges against Arteaga see attempted aggravated homicide; manufacturing, trafficking and carrying firearms oregon ammunition; and utilizing minors to perpetrate crimes. Interpol issued a reddish announcement against him connected Friday.
It was not instantly wide Saturday if Arteaga had an lawyer who could remark connected his behalf. Authorities said helium would marque his archetypal tribunal quality implicit the weekend.
Triana past period said Arteaga "has been progressive successful a beingness of transgression for much than 20 years, performing deed jobs successful each types of crimes successful Bogotá."
FILE --- Miguel Uribe Turbay attends the strategical dialog Rethinking Cities for Competitiveness: Smart and Sustainable Cities astatine the 2019 Concordia Americas Summit successful Bogota, Colombia, connected May 14, 2019.
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Uribe was giving a governmental code successful the parkland erstwhile helium was attacked from behind, allegedly by a insignificant who was captured arsenic helium fled. He was changeable doubly successful the caput and erstwhile successful the knee, CBS News reported. He underwent a "neurosurgical" and "peripheral vascular procedure" astatine the Santa Fe Clinic successful Bogota to dainty the injuries, and has undergone much surgeries since. He remains successful intensive care.
Two different radical – a antheral and a pistillate – were besides injured.
The motive for the shooting is inactive being investigated. In October, Uribe announced his volition to tally successful Colombia's 2026 statesmanlike election. From his Senate seat, helium had go 1 of President Gustavo Petro's astir vocal critics.
The onslaught has been wide condemned successful a state with a acheronian past successful which cause cartels and insurgent groups murdered and kidnapped politicians. Uribe is the lad of a writer who was kidnapped and killed during 1 of the country's astir convulsive periods, successful 1991. Shortly aft the shooting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. "condemns successful the strongest imaginable presumption the attempted assassination" and called the onslaught "a nonstop menace to democracy." He blamed "violent leftist rhetoric coming from the highest levels of the Colombian government" for the shooting.
"Having seen firsthand Colombia's advancement implicit the past fewer decades to consolidate information and democracy, it can't spend to spell backmost to acheronian days of governmental violence," Rubio said. "President Petro needs to dial backmost the inflammatory rhetoric and support Colombian officials."
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