Colombian defense minister dies of Covid-19 complications

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Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died. Trujillo is one of about a dozen sitting cabinet ministers worldwide to have succumbed to the virus.

BOGOTA - Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo died Tuesday of coronavirus complications, the country's president announced. He was 69.

Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Twitter that Trujillo had died at dawn from complications due to Covid-19. In December, Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini of Eswatini -- formerly Swaziland -- became the first sitting leader to die, joining ex-leaders such as former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Swiss ex-president Flavio Cotti and Burundi's former head of state Pierre Buyoya.

In his last role, Trujillo was faced with the worst attacks committed in Colombia since the signing of a peace agreement with the armed guerilla group FARC in 2016.

 

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Basically Covid-19 doesn't kill anyone the only thing that kills people is the 'COMPLICATION'

It happens on South America not in South Africa...... we would dearly miss the. bIt**

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