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 Hundreds of protesters stormed Paraguay’s Congress and set it on fire after senators on Friday voted to allow their president to run for a second term.

The violence broke out after the South American country's Senate approved a measure removing the constitutional one term limit implemented after the fall of the brutal Stroessner dictatorship in 1989.

The constitutional amendment would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for a second five-year term in 2018.

To become law it must first pass through another legislative chamber controlled by the ruling party, as well as a national referendum.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/demonstrators-set-fire-congress-paraguay-article-1.3015638

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