01-04-2017 05:48 via yahoo.com

Unrest as Paraguay senators back president re-election

Paraguayan senators approved a contested law allowing the country's president to be re-elected, prompting furious protesters to break into the legislature, ransacking lawmakers' offices and igniting fires.Right-wing President Horacio Cartes is seeking to reform the constitution to let him run for office again in an election in 2018 after his current term ends.To chants of "Dictatorship never again!" hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police and broke into the congress building, battering d
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