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After six hours of a political control debate in which the Defense Minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, defended his management at the head of this portfolio, the ruling party managed to overturn the motion of censure that was being prepared for last night in the Senate, cited by Jorge Robledo (Pole Demorático). Indeed, a proposal endorsed by 58 senators, and with the opposition bench withdrawing from the plenary, declared the debate on the motion inadmissible.
The argument of the parliamentarians who requested the vote was that the Council of State, last week, overturned the ruling that prohibited the presence of US troops in the country, which was the reason for the debate cited by Robledo, who assured that there was a “Tyranny” of the majorities and that is why the debate he had asked for was halted.
Tempers were already heated. Yesterday, it was previously cited by Roy Barreras to a political control against Trujillo. When the discussion ended, 11 senators asked that the minister’s statements be declared satisfactory. The request led to criticism from the opposition, which also withdrew for this reason, leaving only Angelica Lozano.
The discussion began at 11:00 am and lasted until 5:00 pm In addition, while it was happening, the president Ivan Duque and the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa They announced several arrests for the massacres in Samaniego (Nariño) and Jamundí (Valle).
To begin with, Barreras said that he had found that “36 boys and girls have been killed by agents of the Public Force, why hasn’t the minister informed them?” Given this, Trujillo assured that “the presence of minors does not stop the operation for the legitimate forces of the State,” he said.
Another point was the eradication of crops and spraying with glyphosate, to which Barreras said that the figures provided by the government were not real. Trujillo responded, in turn, that the UN certified that in 2019 crops decreased by 9%.
Barreras also said that the 64 massacres in 2020 allow affirming that “territorial control was lost.” However, Minister Trujillo said that between December 1, 2019 and September 30, 3,909 members of illegal armed groups were neutralized.
The accident of a government helicopter last July in Guaviare, in which 11 soldiers died, also entered the discussion. Barreras said that replacing that aircraft cost $ 12 million. The minister said that the fact is under investigation, but that the probable cause was spatial dislocation and that “a peso was not taken out of the portfolio,” since the new one was paid with insurance.
Thus, and with the support of the government bench, Trujillo was triumphant in another round against the opposition.
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