Uruguayans elect first leftist president
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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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Mexican leftists, who say the July   2 election was stolen, declared their candidate the "legitimate   president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing the risk of   street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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MONTEVIDEO  - Tens of thousands of supporters celebrated in the streets after the victory of Tabare Vazquez in becoming Uruguay&#39;s first leftist president.
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The fractious outcome of a vote on autonomy for Bolivia&#039;s states and the government&#039;s apparent failure to win enough backing to rewrite the constitution could dampened the leftist agenda of President Evo Morales.
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Uruguayan opposition candidate Tabare Vazquez captured enough votes to win the presidency in today&#39;s first-round vote, exit polls from the country&#39;s four-biggest pollsters showed.
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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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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa led thousands in a march on Saturday to mark his first year in office, in a show of support for the leftist leader despite his falling approval ratings.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president yesterday as he courted another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to coopt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez.
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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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Tabare Vazquez was poised to become Uruguay&#39;s first leftwing president yesterday after campaigning for the more equitable distribution of wealth and social justice in a country crippled by a recent economic crisis.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 1 -- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the first round of Brazil's presidential election Sunday, but fell short of earning enough votes to avoid a runoff later this month against the second-place challenger.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuadorean leftist Rafael Correa, an admirer of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory following Sunday's presidential run-off after promising broad reforms in the unstable Andean country.
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The left made more inroads into Latin America in four elections this weekend as crisis-weary voters tired of decades of US-backed market reforms warmed to pragmatic
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay  - Former left-wing guerrillas  who fought against the Uruguayan state in the 1970s were sworn  in on Tuesday to head the two houses of Congress as pivotal  players in the South American nation's historic shift to the  left.
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Romania&#39;s centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu has scored an upset victory in a presidential race against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official results show.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuadorean leftist Rafael Correa, an admirer of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory following Sunday's presidential run-off after vowing sweeping reforms in the unstable Andean country.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader after easily winning a presidential vote that was largely a referendum on her husband's economic successes.