Left-winger Vazquez Wins Uruguay Poll
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Montevideo, Nov. 1 (NNN): The left-wing candidate in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election, Tabare Vazquez, has claimed victory after exit polls put him firmly in the lead.
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Conservative ruling party candidate   Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2   presidential election, the country's top electoral court said   in a preliminary ruling on Tuesday.
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Conservative ruling party candidate  Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2  presidential election, the country's top electoral court said  in a preliminary ruling on Tuesday.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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Socialist Tabare Vazquez scored a historic victory late on Sunday in Uruguay&#39;s presidential voting as exit polls showed his coalition that includes former guerrilla fighters with more than 50 per cent of votes cast.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist  "revolution" and new democratic credentials with his resounding  victory in Sunday's referendum.
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Uruguay's Congress approves a bill which could make it the first Latin American country to allow civil unions.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez won reelection by a wide margin yesterday, giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter US influence in Latin America and beyond.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez claimed victory in Argentinaâs presidential election Sunday, with early results and exit polls suggesting she had avoided a runoff.
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Leftist Rafael Correa has won Ecuador's run-off presidential election, a top electoral official says.
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Israel Vazquez of Mexico stopped Artyom Simonyan of Armenia in the fifth round in El Cajon,California on Tuesday to retain his International Boxing Federation junior featherweight title.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has won 46.79 percent of the votes in Brazil's presidential election with 41.37 percent of the votes tallied, the top electoral court said on Sunday.
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Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidential runoff election, comfortably beating pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, an independent exit poll showed.
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MONTEVIDEO Â· Uruguayans strengthened South America&#39;s political turn to the left, electing the country&#39;s first leftist president as part of a regional shift by voters disenchanted by US-backed
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Tabare Vazquez, a cancer specialist and former mayor of the capital, won Uruguay&#39;s presidential election, becoming the nation&#39;s first leftist leader and strengthening a regional shift toward left-leaning governments.
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Uruguayan physician and former Montevideo Mayor Tabare Vazquez declared victory as the nation&#39;s next president after exit polls showed he won a majority of votes in the South American country.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won international approval from supporters and detractors alike Monday on his decisive referendum victory over opponents trying to oust him.