Paraguayan Lawmakers Reject Presidential Re-election Amendment

Paraguay's lower house of Congress on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed for presidential re-election, ending a monthlong political crisis that aroused violent protests. Under the measure, center-right President Horacio Cartes could have sought re-election in 2018. But last week, the former soft drink and tobacco mogul who took office in 2013 said he would not run regardless of whether the amendment was approved. Protesters set fire to Congress on...

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