Colombian Congress President Asks Prosecutor to Probe Widow's Claim That Murder Order Came From Legislature

Colombian Congress President Honorio Henríquez sent a letter to Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo on Tuesday asking her to investigate statements by María Claudia Tarazona, widow of slain senator and presidential precandidate Miguel Uribe Turbay. Tarazona told Noticias Caracol that the order for her husband's assassination "came from the Congress of the Republic" and the money to carry it out "came from Venezuela."

Henríquez, a senator from the Centro Democrático party, said he placed the legislature's full institutional cooperation at the disposal of authorities. He requested that the prosecutor's office pursue all necessary actions to verify the information with due process and legal confidentiality.

“The order for the magnicide came from the Congress of the Republic and the money to carry it out came from Venezuela.”

Tarazona said she had already delivered the information to the prosecutor's office with proper protocols. She dismissed the theory that the Segunda Marquetalia dissident group alone ordered the killing as "very gaseous" and said the group was part of the material execution but not the intellectual authors.

House Vice President Simón Molina echoed the demand for a swift investigation, calling the allegations an unprecedented institutional breaking point. He said parliamentary immunity must not become a trench for impunity and urged the prosecutor's office to pursue the line of inquiry without political protections.

Uribe Turbay was attacked in June 2025 and later died. The prosecutor's office has not publicly commented on Tarazona's recent claims about congressional involvement or Venezuelan funding.