Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Since 1999, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador have made constitutional changes to allow the continual reelection of the president.
In Honduras, Manuel Zelaya wanted something similar but was overthrown. In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega announced he will request a constitutional reform that would let him be reelected. And now is the government of Alvaro Uribe who is planning to amend the Constitution of Colombia to prolong his stay in the presidency.
Facts that indicate a tendency to prolong the presidential term -by way of constitutional reform and continuous reelection- in much of the governments of Spanish America. A fad raised by a new ruling class and the Latin American past. That one takes advantage of its high popularity ratings to corrupt democratic systems and develop personalist projects, and this, full of dictatorships and populism, continues to shape our political traditions.
We are still at a point where both the citizen who votes and the leader have failed in surpassing the old autocratic habits.
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