Menchu trails in new Guatemala polls
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu is garnering only single-digit support ahead of September's presidential election, according a poll published Wednesday.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Tourists and political pilgrims  can now follow "Che's trail" in Bolivia, which traces Ernesto  Guevara's fatal attempt to export the Cuban revolution to one  of Latin America's poorest countries.
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Hoping to rise above "macaca" moments, the popular site offers presidential hopefuls a direct line to voters. By the Associated Press.
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MADRID -- Spaniards go to the polls on Sunday to elect local and regional officials who are responsible for such services as garbage collection, schools, and running the village fiestas. But the way the campaign is being run, it feels like an election for the next prime minister.
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A former general vowing to crack down on crime in Central America's most violent country and a businessman who promises to alleviate desperate poverty appeared to lead a pack of 14 candidates in Guatemala's presidential vote Sunday.
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NEBAJ, Guatemala -- A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past.
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Taiwan's nationalists on Sunday celebrated their landslide win in legislative elections, setting their sights on the race to succeed President Chen Shui-bian, who headed in defeat to Guatemala.
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Tropical Guatemala will be the unlikely venue when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) picks the host of the 2014 Winter Games from a trio of bidding cities after a campaign in which no clear favorite has emerged.
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Mexico&#039;s two leading presidential candidates are running about even nine days before the election, according to two polls released Friday, the last day voter surveys are permitted.
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Argentines in the nation's capital voted Sunday for a new mayor, with pre-election polls suggesting most would swing right and elect the president of Argentina's most popular soccer team.
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Presidential Guidester polls voters, matches their positions with those of candidates.
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By Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 24--We have not yet reached the dog days of summer, when news mountains can be made from information mole hills, but the state political parties seem headed there faster than the rest of us.
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A total of 87 percent of members of the Czech senior opposition Social Democrats would like direct presidential elections to be introduced in the Czech Republic, CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek told reporters ... via Prague Daily Monitor
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Guatemala on Monday swears in Alvaro Colom, its first leftist president in more than 50 years.
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Moscow, Aug 29 (VNA) - Chechens voted on Sunday in an election to choose a candidate as the Russian republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of terrorist attacks.
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GUATEMALA CITY - Two men from opposite sides of the political spectrum began an eight-week sprint yesterday to convince Guatemalans that the ballot box could rescue their troubled country.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Indigenous groups and  independent candidates were poised to win local elections in  Bolivia on Sunday, while support for traditional parties sank  further after a popular revolt last year toppled former  president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.