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Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who had also been subjected to a motion of censure last May for alleged illegal Army surveillance, and has just come out of a debate on political control over the massacres in the country, will now have to answer for what Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo called “serious violations of the law committed by this Government in what has to do with US troops today are operating in Colombia illegally“, According to Caracol Radio.
“In that the defense minister participated, who also misled the media into making false claims, saying that the order of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca that it gave to the president of the republic had already been fulfilled so that these troops would not operate in Colombia without authorization from the Senate, “added the parliamentarian, quoted by the radio station.
Robledo also said that the head of the cartDefense era “induces the Government to act of prevaricate” and he insinuated that “it tramples the dignity of the Senate” by saying “that the Senators of the Republic had made decisions and never made”, referring to the supposed endorsement that was granted to the presence of the North American military, but which ended up being only an invalid letter real.
El Heraldo indicates that the motion of censure was signed by 26 congressmen, who ask that the Senate approve it to “remove him from office”
“Robledo lies”
Trujillo, for his part, explained that the military “come in advisory, cooperation and training tasks” and defended itself by attacking. According to him, Robledo “lies, slanders, makes false accusations, makes statements that have the purpose of diverting and confusing public opinion and the authorities,” Blu Radio reported.
“He says that this cooperation required authorization from the Senate. Lie; you don’t need it. Second, it says that presence is illegal. Lie; This presence is based on international, multilateral instruments, signed by Colombia many years ago; It is based on binational instruments signed with the United States, it is based on the National Constitution, ”he concluded, as quoted by that station.
This was the announcement of the senator of the Democratic Pole on his Twitter account:
Today, opposition senators will present a MOTION OF CENSORSHIP against the @minDefense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, for the illegality and falsehoods that he promoted about the decisions of the Senate, in relation to the US troops in Colombia, which act illegally. pic.twitter.com/rNyO54OBEL
– Jorge Enrique Robledo (@JERobledo) September 8, 2020
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