Colombian Presidential Candidate in Critical Condition After Assassination Bid

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay remains in a critical condition after an assassination attempt on June 7 that recalled the political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Las and the private armies of drug traffickers. The talks have so far failed to yield major demobilizations, while the groups have taken advantage of the relative lack of military pressure to expand.

On the evening of June 7, crowds gathered outside Fundacion Santa Fe, the hospital where Mr. Uribe is being treated. Some of those present chanted anti-government slogans.