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Santos’s Power Grab in the Name of Peace

The Colombian leader, using the Hugo Chávez playbook, wants a constitutional rewrite.

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Hugo Chávez destroyed political pluralism in Venezuela by consolidating power in the executive. Now Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos wants to copy the Bolivarian strongman. He’s asking Congress for the power to rule by decree for six months and for a blank check to amend the constitution in ways he has not spelled out. Since Mr. Santos’s Liberal Party controls Congress, he is expected to prevail.

Mr. Santos wants this authoritarian power so he can unilaterally change the constitution to include the terms of a...

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