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Church Service For Deceased Colombian Minister
Family members and government officials attended a mass in remembrance of Carlos Holmes Trujillo, the Colombian Defense Minister who died on Tuesday morning from complications related to COVID-19.
He was 69.
The defence minister passed away after being in the hospital for two weeks and spending the last few days in an induced coma at an intensive care unit in Bogota.
President Ivan Duque said of Holmes Trujillo: “His life was a reflection of his vocation for public service,” President Ivan Duque said of Holmes Trujillo.
Holmes Trujillo became defence minister in November 2019, after serving as foreign minister. He was also the mayor of Cali from 1988-1990.
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The South American country, Colombia, has announced its plans to repeat the previous year’s widespread coca eradication for 2021. With the use of a banned herbicide, glyphosate, manual eradication will be replaced with aerial spraying and will wipe out 321,237 acres or more of coca crops. Coca leaves are used to produce cocaine, an illicit drug that is widely grown and sold in the country. The shadow economy of the coca trade has caused consistent strife between the government, armed forces, and civilians for years.
According to Reuters, Colombia’s drug trafficking situation has led to more than 260,000 deaths, many of these incidents held between the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and farmers. With the rapid expansion in coca cultivation, especially in recent years, the eradication events have been a priority of the national government. Glyphosate was first suspended from usage in 2015 by the World Health Organization. The chemical is known to cause extreme environmental har