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Alvaro Uribe
Sep 3 2009, JuAn

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has cleared the last legislative hurdle to running for a third term, a prospect that his U.S. allies look upon with ambivalence.

By a vote of 85 to 5, the lower house of Congress late..

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