(Photo : Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Carlos Holmes Trujillo Minister of Defense of the Republic of Colombia participates in a enhanced honor cordon with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon, on February 7, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia.
Colombia s Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, died in the hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19. President Ivan Duque had a televised address on Tuesday announcing the death of the defense minister. Colombia has lost one of its best men, Pres. Duque said, according to BBC.
Carlos Holmes Trujillo was Colombia s most recognized conservative politicians, reported The Associated Press. He was also a long-serving politician, working as a key figure in Colombia s struggle to combat organized crime.
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Colombia's Defence Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died from viral pneumonia related to COVID-19, the government said on Tuesday. Trujillo was reported infected with coronavirus earlier this month and was transferred to an intensive care unit. He died in the military hospital in Bogota aged 69.
Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo died of complications stemming from Covid-19.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who had overseen the government s fight against drug gangs and guerrillas, died Tuesday of coronavirus complications. He was 69.
Trujillo is the highest-ranking Colombian official and one of nearly a dozen sitting cabinet ministers worldwide to have succumbed to the virus that has killed at least 2.1 million people since the outbreak began in China in December 2019.
Trujillo s death prompted messages of grief and sympathy from near and far, even the government of the United States and the UN.
He was hospitalized in Bogota on January 11 and admitted to intensive care four days later after suffering acute lung function deterioration, according to the defense ministry.
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