Colombian presidential candidate Valencia claims assassination plot; government denies threat

Valencia references assassination of fellow party senator Miguel Uribe Turbay in 2024, who was shot in the head and died two months later.

In the shadow of a colleague's unsolved assassination, Colombian presidential candidate Paloma Valencia has declared that a FARC dissident cell has placed a bounty on her life — a claim the government of President Gustavo Petro swiftly and publicly dismissed as a misreading of intelligence, if not an act of political theater. The dispute, unfolding weeks before the May 31 election, is not merely about one candidate's safety; it is a collision between two visions of how a nation makes peace with its own violence. Whether the threat is real or constructed, the fear it names is not.

Colombian presidential candidate Valencia claims assassination plot; government denies threat

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