This is the kind of moment that feels really pivotal, and it’s frankly a very dangerous moment in Colombian politics,” said Elizabeth Dickinson, Senior Colombia Analyst at Crisis Group International.

The conservative Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay has been shot and seriously injured at a campaign rally in the capital, Bogota. It was a brazen attack captured on video and shook a country that decades ago often faced kidnappings and killings of politicians and high profile people.

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a possible candidate in the country’s presidential election next year, was shot and wounded at a campaign rally in Bogota on Saturday