Colombian Senator’s Murder Threatens Petro’s Radical Peace Plan
Mourners pray at the site where Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was shot in the head during a June 7 campaign rally in Bogota .
Photographer: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo days before a teenage assassin shot him in the head, presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay warned that Colombia’s radical peace plan was empowering violent criminals and plunging the country into chaos.