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The Defense Minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, was successful in his appointment this Thursday in the Senate and for some he raised his option to be a presidential candidate in 2022.
The official had to attend two debates: one on political control cited by Senator Roy Barreras, and another on a motion of censure requested by opposition Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo and related to the US mission in Colombia.
(We recommend: ‘El Round’ after the controversy over the US mission.)
In the first, Barreras asked the official, for example, why he did not “report” the death of 36 minors “by bullets and agents of the Public Force.”
But the Minister explained the military operations at length and said that “civilians who are forced to be members of an illegal armed group and minors of a certain age who are part of hostilities may lose the protection status of non-combatant civilians.”
(Read also: Arturo Char’s call for attention to Gustavo Petro)
Their responses resulted in 66 senators endorsing them and one not.
After this debate, the plenary approved a proposal to overturn Robledo’s motion of censure, which, for the majority, no longer had any basis.
In exchange for this, Barreras requested another, since he considered that his responses to the debate were not satisfactory and on which he will decide in the coming days.
(Further: Ministry of Defense rejects the country’s security crisis)
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