Chavez's Win Leaves Opposition in Disarray
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.    Chavez won 58 percent of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007...
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At the time of this writing, the leadership of the opposition to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Coordinadora Democratica (CD), has not officially accepted Chavez&#39;s 58% - 42% victory in the August 15 recall referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to a clear re-election victory over his united opposition rival on Sunday, a government-paid exit poll showed but the opposition rejected such data.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was headed for a landslide re-election win on Sunday, according to partial results from the National Electoral Council.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won backing from 58 percent of voters, with 94 percent of electoral rolls counted, in a referendum on whether to recall him.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to re-election on Sunday, according to an exit poll linked to the government that said the leftist had a wide lead over his united opposition rival.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez survived a referendum to oust him, according to results Monday, prompting his backers to set off fireworks and celebrate in the capital, while Venezuela's opposition swiftly claimed fraud.    The first-ever recall vote for a president in Venezuela's history was aimed at putting a lid on years of violent political unrest and a bloody coup, and it came after a lengthy and complicated petitioning process...
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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  win in Sunday's referendum.
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Candidates backed by President Hugo Chavez swept all but two of 23 governorships in Sunday&#39;s regional elections, but opposition incumbents in two key states were re-elected, according to preliminary results announced by elections authorities.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition on  Tuesday presented a video laying out details of its allegations  that leftist President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum last  month by massive vote rigging.
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An audit of Venezuela&#39;s referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition&#39;s claims
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the "red, really, red" of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, after sweeping to re-election in Sunday's vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight.
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Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, easily won a referendum on his rule and on Monday offered to open a dialogue with opponents, while vowing to intensify the reforms at the heart of the nation's political conflict.
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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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Hugo Chavez, who has endured a rough political ride since first coming to power in 1998, is the subject of both adulation and loathing both at home and abroad.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition  leaders said on Wednesday they had given observers evidence of  electronic vote tampering that helped President Hugo Chavez win  Sunday's referendum, but they rejected an audit meant to clear  up their fraud charges.
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President Hugo Chavez is predicting a crushing victory Sunday as he seeks another six-year term in an election that could further entrench Latin America's most defiant voice against U.S. foreign policy.