But the left-wing populists influenced by Chávez – who ruled Venezuela for 14 years – have perfected a particularly illiberal practice: bending constitutional rules to allow themselves to be reelected again and again. In Bolivia, President Evo Morales’s new 2009 constitution banned reelection to a third consecutive term, but now the Constitutional Court has allowed him to run, arguing that the Bolivian state has been “refounded.”
但受查韦斯影响（他统治委内瑞拉长达14年）的左翼民粹主义者已经对一项特别不自由的行为驾轻就熟：篡改宪法规则允许他们自己一次又一次连任。在玻利维亚，总统莫拉莱斯的2009年新宪法禁止三度连选连任，但如今宪法法院批准他连任，指出玻利维亚国已经“重建”。根据宪法法院给出的理由，莫拉莱斯的前几个任期发生于不同的国家，因此不受现有任期限制约束。