Argentines seen voting for continued prosperity
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Argentines voted for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband and become the country's first elected woman leader.
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Since Mr Kirchner took power in May last year, Argentines have grown accustomed to his highly charged speeches to provincial audiences.
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Argentine first lady and senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is set for a resounding victory in the presidential election one week away, according to 10 different polls published on Sunday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's two most powerful politicians -- President Nestor Kirchner and his wife, Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner -- set out to win support internationally last week the same way they've won it here at home: by appearing beholden to no one.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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The election held in Uruguay yesterday will determine whether the country, slowly emerging from economic turmoil, will join the ranks of other South American nations headed by leftist presidents.
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Margarita Saldana looks around her community and sees poor-paying jobs and discrimination against workers who don't speak English. When she contemplates how to vote on Election Day, she sees little difference between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry.
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As Brazil prepares to vote, its economic capital faces a different kind of contest
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Polls show that nearly two years after he was voted out of the prime ministerâs office, Silvio Berlusconi would probably win it back.
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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.
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Most polls project first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will crush 13 rivals Sunday to replace her husband as Argentina's president. But no matter how easy her win, what follows will be tough: easing poverty, inflation and unemployment.
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Nationalist fervor and economic promise spur Brazilians to vote their Redeemer into contention as a new Wonder of the World
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After a campaign that split open Mexico&#039;s deep class divisions, voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect a free-spending leftist who pledges to put the poor first or a conservative politician who says private investment and free markets are the keys to prosperity.
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Argentina's legendary first lady Eva Peron died more than 50 years ago but she is still a force in this year's presidential election.
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Argentina's economy kept up a strong recovery through the end of 2004 with early data Wednesday showing the country's gross domestic product rose 9.2 percent from a year earlier.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's first couple, a power pair often compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton, won't say whether it will be a his or hers candidacy in this year's presidential election.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential race on her husband's economic successes, but now confronts stern challenges posed by the boom he helped create.