The investigation into the shooting attack on right-wing presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe continues to progress. Authorities arrested a woman involved in the attack on the senator, who remains in critical condition, in southern Colombia on Saturday, as reported by Afp.
The 39-year-old senator was shot three times a week ago, two of the shots in the head, during an event with supporters in Bogotá. The alleged gunman, a 15-year-old teenager, and an accomplice involved in the attack's "logistics" had already been captured.
On Saturday, a police source reported the arrest of the woman suspected of having connections to the attack in the Amazon region of Caquetá, without providing further details. "She will be transferred to Bogotá in the next few hours," they added.
The other two detainees, heavily guarded in a prosecutor's bunker, are accused of murder and illegal possession of firearms.
The minor, identified as the alleged gunman, pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday. According to a report on Saturday by Semana magazine, he stated that he was offered 20 million pesos (over 4,800 dollars) to kill the politician.
El Tiempo's investigative unit also stated that one of the accused mentioned a criminal living in Ecuador and controlling a drug distribution area in Bogotá as the alleged mastermind.
Amid the investigations to establish the authorship of the crime, Uribe remains hospitalized in intensive care with a "reserved prognosis." However, he showed some signs of improvement on Wednesday.
Leftist President Gustavo Petro stated on Saturday that the senator's health "cannot be explained by science."
"He should be dead (...) and what is happening is that he is recovering," he added in a statement.
The opposition party to which Miguel Uribe belongs, the Centro Democrático of the influential former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), temporarily suspended its campaign events for the 2026 presidential elections on Friday.
To clarify the case, Petro requested assistance from "secret agencies" in the United States.
Various political sectors urged the president to soften his speeches to avoid exacerbating polarization in Colombia.