Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Minister Foreign relations in HondurasLisandro Rosales on Tuesday lamented the death of Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo of Covid-19 and described him as a of “dialogue and consensus”.
“Rest in peace my good friend @CarlosHolmesTru, lawyer, diplomat and above all a man of dialogue and consensus. Colombia is losing a great son!” Rosales said in a message on Twitter.
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The Colombian minister died today in Bogota, at the age of 69, due to complications from his health due to the coronavirus, Colombian President Iván Duque informed.
Trujillo, who was also chancellor in the first 15 months of the government headed by Duque, gave positive results for covid-19 Last January 12 in Barranquilla, two days after he led a security council in the neighboring town of Santa Marta.
On the same day, he was quarantined and, although he continued his duties, he entered a clinic in Barranquilla, from where, on January 14, he was transferred to the Central Military Hospital in Bogota, where he died at 02: 00 this Tuesday.
The Honduran Foreign Minister had indicated on January 19 that he was “praying for a speedy recovery from good friend @CarlosHolmesTru “ after learning that he had tested positive for the disease.
“Colombians, with deep pain and sadness, have received the news of the death of our defense minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo,” President Duque said in a statement to the country.
Trujillo has also served as Minister of Education, Interior, Foreign Affairs and Defense in several governments.