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Weekly Report - 01 October 2020 (WR-20-39)

COLOMBIA: Trujillo stirs the pot on social media

Facing growing pressure, Colombia’s defence minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo unleashed a late-night Twitter tirade on 27 September, in which he defended the “legitimate authority” of state security forces “to confront vandals, violent terrorists, instigators, and accomplices”, and repeatedly called for the “slanderers” who criticised him to be “thrown in prison”. With a congressional motion of censure scheduled to be debated on 13 October, and public anger over violence by state security forces showing no signs of dissipating [WR-20-37], it is difficult to see how Trujillo can stay in his post.

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