{"id":31109,"date":"2021-01-27T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31109"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:09:32","slug":"on-the-death-of-colombian-defense-minister-trujillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31109","title":{"rendered":"On the Death of Colombian Defense Minister Trujillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>01\/27\/2021 04:03 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On behalf of the Department of State, I offer my condolences to the people and government of Colombia on the death of Minister of Defense and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Holmes Trujillo Garc\u00eda.\u00a0 With his passing, Colombia has lost a great patriot, leader, and statesman.\u00a0 The United States has lost a close friend and ally.\u00a0 Minister Trujillo\u2019s dedication to a peaceful, prosperous, and inclusive Colombia was apparent to all who worked with him over his more than four decades of public service.\u00a0 He will be remembered for his tireless efforts to strengthen Colombia\u2019s partnership with the United States in the service of a stable and democratic hemisphere.\u00a0 The United States joins with Colombia in mourning his passing, and in recognizing the grief that so many families in both our countries have endured during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 We pledge to continue our cooperation with our close ally Colombia in the service of our common democratic ideals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/27\/2021 04:03 PM EST &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31110,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109\/revisions\/31110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}