Venezuela's Chavez storms to re-election victory
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stormed to a re-election victory in Sunday's vote, handing him an ample mandate to broaden his promised socialist revolution and challenge Washington's influence in Latin America.
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA - An audit of ballots from 150 voting stations has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won last week&#39;s recall referendum, reported the Organization of American States Saturday.
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Initial results from Venezuela suggest President Chavez has a commanding lead in a referendum on his rule.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, emboldened by a recent referendum victory, on Sunday promised tougher land redistribution as he pressed ahead with the "revolutionary" reforms at the heart of the nation's political conflict.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to  results released by electoral authorities on Monday with 94  percent of the vote counted.
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Crime has soared in Venezuela. Yet President Hugo ChÃ¡vez appears headed to re-election on Sunday.
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CARACAS -- Venezuelans deciding the fate of Hugo Chavez's presidency thronged polling stations in such overwhelming numbers yesterday that election officials were forced to extend voting hours until midnight. Many voters rose before dawn and lined up for hours to cast their votes on whether to recall Chavez, a populist former paratroop commander whose controversial rule has polarized this oil-rich ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed victory with a cry of "long live the revolution" as official results showed him heading for a landslide re-election win on Sunday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Voters turned out in huge numbers Sunday to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him and his social revolution that critics say has sidelined the middle class and fueled tensions between rich and poor.    Activists on both sides set off huge firecrackers and played recorded bugle songs to wake voters hours before dawn...
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Venezuelans turned out early and in large numbers on Sunday to vote in a historic referendum that will either remove left-wing President Hugo Chavez from office or give him a new mandate to govern for the next two years.
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An audit done by international observers has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez beat a recall referendum and that the vote was fair, an electoral council official said on Saturday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - An audit of Venezuela's  recall referendum has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won  fairly and found no evidence to support fraud charges,  observers and electoral council officials said on Saturday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum on his divisive  rule in a vote backed on Monday by international observers who  found no "element of fraud."
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Summoned by bugle calls and firecrackers, millions of Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to vote on whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office.    Lines snaked for blocks in upscale neighborhoods, where suspicion is high that the leftist leader plans a Cuba-style dictatorship, and in the slums, where support for his "revolution for the poor" is fervent...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan leftist President  Hugo Chavez on Monday declared victory in a referendum on his  rule but the opposition called the results "a gigantic fraud."
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Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to results released by electoral authorities on Monday with 94 percent of the vote counted.