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Paraguay congress set on fire amid presidential controversy
BBC News ^ | 4/1/2017 | BBC

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: asuncion; obamacare; paraguay; reelection
'CONGRESS SET ON FIRE'.....LOL.....OMG

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.

1 posted on 03/31/2017 11:02:51 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

People who have lived under tyranny know how to fight it.


2 posted on 03/31/2017 11:09:22 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Nextrush

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.


3 posted on 04/01/2017 12:32:16 AM PDT by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: saintgermaine

Interesting. As to Congress, the Paraguayans may be on to something./sarcasm


4 posted on 04/01/2017 1:52:50 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Nextrush
Ann Coulter once made a remark to the effect that we should thank God everyday that America was founded by white, Anglo-Saxon, protestants—otherwise we'd be living in a version of Mexico, Brazil, or Quebec …
5 posted on 04/01/2017 4:32:33 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: joshua c

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.


6 posted on 04/01/2017 7:01:29 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Nextrush


7 posted on 04/01/2017 8:34:36 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
It seems really, really stupid when you think about it. Burning the place where one of the checks and balances on an an autocratic president meets in order to protest an autocratic president . . .

Sort of like the Germans protesting against Naziism by importing Islamofacist extremists sympathetic to the same thing the Nazis wanted . . .

8 posted on 04/01/2017 8:49:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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