Senator in Intensive Care Shows Colombia Spinning Out of Control
Last Thursday, presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay warned that Colombia was fast sinking back into its violent past. Two days later, a gunman shot him in the head during a rally.
The 39-year-old opposition senator is now fighting for his life in a Bogota hospital, while prosecutors try to find out who may have ordered the teenage suspect to pull the trigger.
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