The Minister of Defense of Colombia, Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, made this March in Bogotá on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of the coronavirus, President Iván Duque announced.
“Colombians, with deep pain and sadness have received the notice of the bankruptcy of our Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trijillo”, said the President Duque in a statement to the country in which the murmur official “in the madness of the high court complications in his health while fighting against the covid-19 “.
His son, José Renán Trujillo, informed and lamented the death of the Minister.
“I deeply regret the failure of my husband. Lucho for his convictions and defensive wall”, wrote José Renan Trujillo in his Twitter account.
Some time ago, the Ministry of Health issued a statement in which Holmes Trujillo continued to be hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit of the Military Central Hospital, detailing that his condition was most favorably improved, even if it was ventilated.
President Álvaro Uribe lamented Trujillo’s failure to send a message of condolence, which he posted on his Twitter account: “Share the death of Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo. the hours “.
Trujillo was one of the candidates of the Center Democratic Party in the presidential elections, which finally elected Ivan Duque, who went to the Colombian Presidency in 2018.