Colombian president wants to lift term limits
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been Washington’s closest ally in Latin America for the past eight years. But now Uribe wants to change the Colombian constitution to run for a third term next year. And that has fueled concern that he’s turning into an autocrat. From Colombia, John Otis reports.
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