ASUNCION (Reuters) - Security forces surrounded Paraguay’s Congress on Tuesday while lawmakers argued over a possible change in law that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election, a move that the opposition says would weaken democratic institutions.

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Hundreds took to the streets of the capital in opposition-led protests of the proposed change, though no incidents of violence were reported. Police remained outside the building well into the evening, and streets surrounding the Congress and presidential palace remained closed off.

A bill allowing presidents to run for a second five-year term was defeated in the legislature last year.

This week a group of senators asked for a special session that the opposition interpreted as the start of a new campaign by Cartes and his coalition to2017, May 16: Fish Fall in Oroville

An early report on May 18, 2017, from the Action News Now website stated that on the previous Tuesday morning, May 16, students and teachers arrived to Stanford Elementary School in Ororville, California, to what was initially thought to be a prank. The school's grounds and roof, you see, were dotted with hundreds of tiny fish. But then it started to rain during classes and recess... and more fish fell from the sky.

The theory put forward by the reporter of the matter was that it was likely caused by a water spout that gathered tiny fish and later dropped them. At the time of this first reporting, no official explanation had been released yet... possibly because if a water spout picked up