Ruben Krasnopolsky wrote: > > Take Menem as a sobering example, just across the border from Brazil... > (Explanation for non-South-Americans: Menem, an Argentine politician > now famous for suspected corruption, pulled off a constitutional > amendment allowing his reelection. People liked him enough for that.) > And he even tried to get re-re-elected again - but he managed to be kicked out (democratically!) before he finished with Arg... oops... before he finished his 2nd mandate.
And remember Alberto Fujimori in Peru, that changed the Constitution so that he was re-elected several times, with dictatorial powers. Worse: it seems that Fujimori was not born in Peru, like the Guvernator :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
