Authorities say a Colombian man suspected of a logistical role in the killing of Senator Miguel Uribe has been captured in Buenos Aires.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 22 Apr 2026<\/span>22 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A suspect in the assassination of Colombian presidential hopeful and Senator Miguel Uribe has been arrested in Buenos Aires, according to the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office in Argentina.<\/p>\n A statement on Tuesday identified the suspect as a Colombian citizen named Brayan Ferney Cruz Castillo.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Following his arrest, Cruz Castillo will remain in detention as he faces eventual extradition. The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office described him as being part of a criminal conspiracy to kill Uribe.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to the investigation conducted in Colombia, the attack was carried out by an organised criminal structure involving multiple actors,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n \u201cEvidence emerged suggesting that Cruz Castillo may have been involved in logistical aspects of the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office said Castillo had entered Argentina illegally and was previously arrested in connection with a robbery case. They credited his latest arrest to cooperation with Colombian judicial authorities, who had issued an international alert for his capture.<\/p>\n Uribe, a conservative senator in Colombia, was shot in the head during a campaign event in the capital Bogota in June. <\/span>After undergoing multiple surgeries, he died two months later, in August. He was 38 years old. <\/span><\/p>\n The shooting was met with shock and widespread condemnation. Uribe\u2019s death was particularly symbolic.<\/span><\/p>\n His mother, prominent journalist Diana Turbay, had been killed in a cartel-linked abduction in 1991, and her story was immortalised in a nonfiction book, News of a Kidnapping, by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.<\/span><\/p>\n Colombian prosecutors have accused a local criminal network of organising Uribe\u2019s killing, and several members have been arrested and sentenced.<\/p>\n One suspect, a 15-year-old teenager accused of being the shooter, was charged with attempted murder and possession of an illegal weapon. He was sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention in August.<\/p>\n Colombian prosecutors believe that the local group acted on behalf of a paramilitary faction known as the Second Marquetalia, led by a former commander for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who operates under the alias Ivan Marquez.<\/p>\n Authorities in Colombia ordered the capture of seven figures in the Second Marquetalia in March in connection with the assassination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Authorities say a Colombian man suspected of a logistical role in the killing of Senator Miguel Uribe has been captured in Buenos Aires. Published On 22 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 A suspect in the assassination of Colombian presidential hopeful and Senator Miguel Uribe has been arrested in Buenos Aires, according to the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/xUw9RW5W_400x400-1730824604.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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