{"id":189648,"date":"2010-02-26T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/26\/columgian-high-court-denies-3rd-term-bid-by-uribe\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:59:00","slug":"columgian-high-court-denies-3rd-term-bid-by-uribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/26\/columgian-high-court-denies-3rd-term-bid-by-uribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Columgian High Court Denies 3rd Term Bid By Uribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aSgERGKNAF5k\">good thing for democracy in Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>12 years is too long.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, they stopped a plebiscite on this not for broad constitutional reasons, but on narrow procedural ones, &#8220;on the grounds that a referendum approved by congress ignored checks and balances and because supporters exceeded financing limits during a petition drive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign finance violations are no surprise; he is a darling of the moneyed class in Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good thing for democracy in Columbia. 12 years is too long. Interestingly enough, they stopped a plebiscite on this not for broad constitutional reasons, but on narrow procedural ones, &#8220;on the grounds that a referendum approved by congress ignored checks and balances and because supporters exceeded financing limits during a petition drive&#8221;. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,972,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-justice","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}