Colombian president wants to lift term limits

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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been Washington’s closest ally in Latin America for the past eight years. But now Uribe wants to change the Colombian constitution to run for a third term next year. And that has fueled concern that he’s turning into an autocrat. From Colombia, John Otis reports.

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