A Colombian judge on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, ordered the imprisonment of Simeón Pérez Marroquín, alias El Viejo, the alleged intermediary between the masterminds and the criminal group responsible for the attack on presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died two months later on August 11.

A prosecutor charged El Viejo with homicide; conspiracy to commit crimes; use of minors for criminal activities; and manufacturing, trafficking, possession, or carrying of firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition.

“The charges were not accepted by the accused, who must now serve a preventive detention in a prison facility,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

According to the authorities, El Viejo was contacted “to organize everything related to the attack” and subsequently assigned the plan to Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias Chipi, who is accused of defining the logistics and the roles of the other participants.

“El Viejo was also reportedly involved in prior surveillance of the victim, including an incident in March 2025 when the pre-candidate was monitored and photographed during a political meeting in southwestern Bogotá,” the statement added.

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Venezuela’s Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, warned on Wednesday that any citizen who calls for an invasion of the country “is renouncing” their nationality. He added that the decision would be made by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), following a request from President Nicolás Maduro to consider a “constitutional measure” to revoke citizenship from anyone who “joins” such foreign operations—a move he attributed to opposition leader Leopoldo López.

Cabello explained that the president’s request is based on Article 130 of the Venezuelan Constitution, which states that citizens “have the duty to honor and defend the homeland” and to “safeguard and protect the sovereignty, nationality, territorial integrity, self-determination, and interests of the nation.”

While Article 35 specifies that Venezuelans “by birth shall not be deprived of their nationality,” Cabello cited Article 36, which allows for voluntary renunciation, claiming that a person can renounce nationality either publicly or “explicitly” through their actions—something the Constitution does not explicitly state. Article 36 merely notes that “Venezuelan nationality may be renounced” and outlines the procedures for reclaiming it, whether by birth or naturalization.

Cabello asserted, “Anyone who calls for the invasion of their own country is enlisting in a foreign army and is renouncing, both tacitly and explicitly, their nationality. No one needs to take it away; they are already renouncing it.”

He reiterated, “When you decide to join an army hostile to your homeland, you are tacitly renouncing that nationality,” directly accusing López of such actions.

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On Wednesday, Mexico appeared before the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) in New York, presenting updated technical and legal information regarding the extension of the Mexican continental shelf in the Eastern Polygon of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) highlighted that this step represents “a decisive move” in the international process that will allow Mexico to establish the outer limits of its continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico beyond 200 nautical miles, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The SRE noted that these outer limits align with maritime boundaries previously agreed upon with the United States and Cuba through the boundary treaties signed in 2017.

“Mexico is moving toward a key objective: obtaining full international recognition of the limits of its continental shelf and exercising its sovereign rights over the seabed and subsoil resources in this area of the Gulf of Mexico,” the Foreign Ministry, led by Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente, stated.

“Once the CLCS process is completed, Mexico’s continental shelf outer limits will be definitive, binding, and, therefore, enforceable against third states. The success of this effort will provide Mexico with full legal certainty regarding the extent of its marine zones in the Gulf of Mexico,” the ministry added.

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Mexico’s presentation was led by SRE legal consultant Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga; engineer Francisco Javier Medina Parra from INEGI; Captain Simitrio Morales López from the Ministry of the Navy; geologist Natalia Amezcua Torres from the Mexican Geological Service; geologist Luis Salomón Mora from Pemex; and Joel Hernández from the Foreign Ministry.