The proposal is part of a trend among Latin American leaders who have sought to use referendums to undercut constitutional term limits and prolong their time in power. Voters in Venezuela and Bolivia have approved the lifting of term limits to extend incumbents’ stays in office. Efforts by President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras to remove term limits were the cause of a military coup in the Central American nation in June. In Colombia in 2006, Mr. Uribe, a conservative, became the first president to be consecutively re-elected in more than a century after his political supporters gained approval of a constitutional amendment that removed an existing one-term limit for the presidency and created a two-term limit. Read more here. Semana International delivers news about Colombia in English. Find more in our home.