Left win key Colombia post
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A leftist rival of Colombia's President Uribe is elected Bogota mayor as local polls pass off largely peacefully.
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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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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off for the country's eighth presidency in a decade, three exit polls showed.
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THE VOTE: Polls indicate victory for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's first elected leftist president, when he seeks a second four-year term in elections Oct. 1.
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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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Colombia's conservative president shocked Latin America last week by asking to join a development bank central to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's drive for left-wing integration in South America.
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THE INCUMBENT: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's first elected leftist president, has been applauded for keeping his pledge to improve life for the poor, and for doing it without raising taxes or alienating foreign investors.
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Venezuela's poll will likely give the left a 6-4 victory in the continent's year of elections. Now, can the two sides finally learn from each other's policy ideas?
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How big was the leftist leader's reelection victory? So big his opponents didn't even cry foul
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Argentina on course for first elected woman president after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declares victory.
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Uruguay&#39;s first leftwing president in its 170-year history yesterday celebrated his election victory, consolidating a political swing to the left across South America.
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MADRID -- Spain's governing Socialists and the conservative opposition won virtually equal support in local elections Sunday, setting the stage for a fierce contest in the general election next year.
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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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Colombia's government will release a group of jailed left-wing guerrillas, says President Alvaro Uribe.
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Outspoken leftist Hugo Chavez claimed victory in his bid for a new term as Venezuela's president Sunday after the bulk of returns showed him leading challenger Manuel Rosales by a wide margin.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.
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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.