Plan to Dissolve Congress Is Dropped
From Times Wire Reports
Hoping to defuse his worst political crisis, President Andres Pastrana said he is dropping a proposal to dissolve Colombia’s Congress. The decision to pull the proposal from a planned referendum meets a key demand of opposition lawmakers, who vowed to block economic reforms and called for early presidential elections in protest.
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