* 2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

The new constitution took effect on the 6th November 2009.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

" In August 2009, with Bainimarama still controlling the government as prime minister and the constitution abrogated, Epeli Nailatikau a former military commander was appointed acting president on the retirement of Iloilo.

A new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009 which modernised the Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, embedding self-determination in the main body of the constitution.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

In 2009 Zelaya caused controversy with his call to have a constitutional referendum in June to decide about convening a Constitutional National Assembly to formulate a new constitution.

The last parliamentary election under the new constitution was held in 9 May 2009.

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All references to communism were removed from the North Korean constitution in 2009.

" His spokesman then outlined a plan in which a referendum could be held in mid 2009, not to amend the 1999 constitution, but to scrap it and begin work on a constitution of the Sixth Republic of Niger, which would contain no term limits for the President, and create a fully Presidential republic.

On 25 May 2009, the Constitutional Court, made up of appointed judges, released a ruling that any referendum to create a new constitution would be unconstitutional, and further would be a violation of the oath the president had taken on the Koran ( a serious matter in this overwhelmingly Muslim country ).

It has had its present constitution since 1 September 2009.

In addition, a new regional constitution was drafted and later passed on 15 June 2009, which is believed to represent a significant step toward the eventual introduction of a multi-party political system to the region for the first time ; such a system already exists in the adjacent Somaliland region.

After the 2009 elections, the ANC lost its two-thirds majority in the national legislature which had allowed it to unilaterally alter the constitution.

The islands ' political troubles in recent years have resulted in a rewritten constitution promulgated in 2006 and a reintroduction of direct UK Government rule in 2009.

In June 2009, Governor John de Jongh, Jr. rejected the resulting draft constitution, saying that the document " violates federal law, fails to defer to federal sovereignty and disregards basic civil rights ".

In July 2009, while undergoing radiation therapy, he was interviewed by the Washington Post: " I recovered very quickly after my surgery, and I've been hoping that my better-than-average constitution will keep the worst effects of radiation at bay.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the African Union Commission praised the election for taking place with " calm and serenity " Prior to the 2009 election, Tunisia amended its constitution to allow more candidates to run for president, allowing the top official from each political party to compete for the presidency regardless of whether they held seats in parliament.

In the Republic of Ireland every constitutional amendment must be approved by referendum ; 30 such referendums have occurred so far ( from the enactment of the current constitution to the end of 2009 ).

In late 2009 with the publication of the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, traditionalist Anglicans were invited into unity with the Holy See.

Pepsi released this logo in U. S. in late 2008, and later it was released in 2009 in Canada ( the first country outside of the United States for Pepsi's new logo ), Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Dominican Republic, the Philippines and Australia.

Bolivia led a diplomatic effort to do so beginning in March 2009, but eighteen countries out of a total of 184, those 18 being listed as followed ( chronologically: the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Latvia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine ) objected to the change before the January 2011 deadline.

In January 2009, Bolivia limited its foreign relationship with Israel in the wake of strikes in Gaza by Israel.

In 2009 amid improving relations between the two countries Bolivia and Russia signed various agreements pertaining to energy and military ties, mining activities and illegal drug eradication.

: Bolivia ( 1950 – 2009 ); Cuba, ( 1950 – 1973 ); Nicaragua ( 1948 – 1982, 1992 – 2010 ) ( relations currently suspended, not severed '); and Venezuela ( 1950 – 2009 ).

In January 2009, Bolivia limited its foreign relationship with Israel in the wake of strikes in Gaza by Israel.

In August 2009 Bolivia launched a Guaraní-language university at Kuruyuki in the southeastern province of Chuquisaca which will bear the name of the indigenous hero Apiaguaiki Tumpa.

In 2009 Bolivia asked the United Nations to recognize the Bolivian cultural roots of the Alasitas festival, celebrating the figure of the Ekeko, something Peru also claims.

Following the approval of the new Constitution of Bolivia in the January 2009 referendum, new elections were called.

On October 8, 2009, at a ceremony in Vallegrande, marking the 42nd anniversary of Che's death, Morales remarked that " Guevara is invincible in his ideals, and in all this history, after so many years, he inspires us to continue fighting, changing not only Bolivia, but all of Latin America and the world.

According to the revised Constitution of Bolivia of 2009, the Wiphala is considered a national symbol of Bolivia ( along with the flag, national anthem, coat of arms, the cockade ; kantuta flower and patujú flower ).

Guillermo Lora ( 31 October 1922 – 17 May 2009 ) was a Trotskyist leader in Bolivia.

In 2009 The Hunger Project was active in Africa, in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, and Uganda, in Asia, in Bangladesh and India, and in Latin America, in Mexico, Bolivia ( partnered with Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola ( ACLO )), and Peru ( partnered with Chirapaq ( Center for Indigenous Peoples ' Cultures of Peru )).

Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, Tabaré Vázquez and José Mujica in Uruguay, the Lagos and Bachelet governments in Chile, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Manuel Zelaya in Honduras ( although deposed by the 28 June 2009 coup d ' état ), and Rafael Correa of Ecuador are all part of this wave of left-wing politicians who also often declare themselves socialists, Latin Americanists or anti-imperialists.

* Che Guevara's 81st birthday Marked in Bolivia Ahora, June 15, 2009

In 2009, Bolivia passed legislation banning the use of any animals, wild or domestic, in circuses.

Since August 2009 he has been imprisoned in Bolivia.

Cortada has worked with groups internationally to produce art projects and installations, such as environmental works in Holland ( 2009 ), Quebec ( 2009 ) and Latvia ( 2008 ), peace murals in Cyprus ( 2000 ) and Northern Ireland ( 2000 ), child-welfare murals in Bolivia ( 1997 ) and Panama ( 1999 ), and the official International AIDS Conference murals in Geneva ( 1998 ) and South Africa ( 2000 ).

More recently, Bolivia beat Argentina, who were ranked sixth in the world, 6 – 1 on April 1, 2009, Argentina's heaviest defeat since 1958.

In June 2009, Gueiler accepted the role of honorary president of the Human Rights Foundation in Bolivia.

On 11 March 2009, he scored again twice against Bolivia, in a game that ended 5-1.