Posted on 03/31/2017 11:02:51 PM PDT by Nextrush
Demonstrators in Paraguay have set fire to the country's Congress amid violent protests against a bill that would let the president seek re-election.
Protestors stormed the legislature, breaking windows and fences.
The countries 1992 constitution, introduced after 35 years of dictatorship, strictly limits the president to a single five-year term.
But sitting President Horactio Cartes is attempting to remove the restriction and run for re-election.
Protestors were photographed smashing in windows of the congress building in Asuncion on Friday night and setting fire to the interior.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
As the Lord takes those gasoline containers out of our hands, the corruption of political institutions from the capital of our 'semi-banana republic' to the capitals of the all out 'banana republics' is so evident and clear..
God help us to find sanity and sobriety in the midst of a world where the insanity is everywhere and anywhere.
People who have lived under tyranny know how to fight it.
If our former boy wonder president could have, he probably would have tried the same crap. Since he couldn’t he was hoping that Hillary along with all the other screwed up socialists would continue where he left off.
Interesting. As to Congress, the Paraguayans may be on to something./sarcasm
Doesn’t seem to hold true for the likes of people as the Germans, or....
Eastern Europe, yes. Western European are perilously close to losing it all.
Sort of like the Germans protesting against Naziism by importing Islamofacist extremists sympathetic to the same thing the Nazis wanted . . .
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