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Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who faces the threat of a debate on a motion of censure by the opposition, lashed out on Twitter against his detractors, whom he called “slanderers” and “politicians.”
The official, whose resignation is requested by representatives of various political sectors, said that it is time to “jail the slanderers.”
It is time for slanderers to pay their sentences in jail
– Carlos Holmes Trujillo (@CarlosHolmesTru) September 28, 2020
Politicians with death slander, launch false accusations, organize campaigns against public forces, and oppose spraying and eradication, effective and safe methods to end illicit crops that are a source of financing for murder, social leaders and massacres
– Carlos Holmes Trujillo (@CarlosHolmesTru) September 28, 2020
The public force is prepared and ready to defend the right of anyone who wants to demonstrate peacefully and to regain order when it is threatened by violence and terrorists
– Carlos Holmes Trujillo (@CarlosHolmesTru) September 28, 2020
The recent abuses by the Colombian Police and Army against civilians They have against the wall the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who has shown himself as the Government’s hawk in the management of public order and whose resignation they ask
The minister, who has been in office for ten months, after a career devoted mainly to diplomacy in which he was even the first chancellor of President Iván Duque, has assumed as head of Defense a more radical stance than his predecessors before the protests streets that have him in the eye of the hurricane.
One of its main critics is Senator Jorge Robledo, from the Alternative Democratic Pole, who considers that Trujillo is “unworthy” to hold the position and accuses him of “lying” and “deceiving” the Senate to allow the presence in the country of members of a US military brigade to fight drug trafficking, of tolerating excesses of military and police officers and to disobey judicial decisions.
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