BOGOTA — Miguel Uribe, a Colombian senator who was vying for his party’s candidacy in upcoming presidential elections, died today, two months after being shot at a campaign rally. He was 39.

Uribe, a father and stepfather, was shot in the head while giving a campaign speech on June 7 and underwent multiple surgeries during his subsequent hospital stay.

He had shown some improvement during July, but his condition worsened over the past weekend due to a hemorrhage in his central nervous system, the hospital treating him said yesterday.

The assassination has evoked memories of intense political violence in Colombia’s past. In the 1980s and 1990s, four presidential candidates were murdered in separate attacks blamed on drug cartels allied with right-wing paramilitary death squads.

“You’ll always be the love of my life,” his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona said on Instagram early today. “Thank you for a life filled with love, thank you for being a father to the girls, the best dad to Alejandro.”

“I ask God to show me the path to learn to live without you,” she added. “Rest in peace, love of my life, I will take care of our children.”

The death of Uribe adds further tragedy to his family’s fraught history.

His mother, journalist Diana Turbay, was killed in 1991 during a botched rescue mission after she was kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel, headed by drug lord Pablo Escobar.

The family is prominent in Colombian politics. His maternal grandfather, Julio Cesar Turbay, served as Colombia’s president from 1978 to 1982, while his paternal grandfather, Rodrigo Uribe Echavarria, headed the Liberal Party and supported Virgilio Barco’s successful 1986 presidential campaign.