petreas

In 1988, lawmakers in Tegucigalpa had armor-plated their Constitution with a few "untouchable items" — clausulas petreas — such as Article 239, which sets the presidential mandate at a single four-year term (with no reelection) and declares that any leader who even proposes to amend the Constitution to end term limits will be automatically disqualified from the job and banned from politics for 10 years.

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TODD (on camera): those who know him say with that experience in Mosul and in training the Iraqi army, David petreas under the cultural complexities of Iraq, but one retired officer telling me he wishes Petraeus would have been put in place maybe two years ago and wonders if it's not too late now.

CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007 2007