Colombia Presidential Hopeful Dies Two Months After Shooting
Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian presidential hopeful who had warned that the nation was slipping back into its violent past, died two months after being gunned down while campaigning in Bogotá. He was 39 (Source: Bloomberg)
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