Uruguay elects first leftist leader
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Uruguay has made a historic political shift in electing its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, and giving his coalition a majority in Congress to face rebuilding the country after its recent economic crisis.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 28 -- The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife Sunday, as first lady Cristina FernÃÂ¿ndez de Kirchner crushed 13 opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the political principles that made President NÃÂ¿stor Kirchner one of Latin America's most popular...
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez declared victory in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election Sunday after exit polls showed him surging past two rivals with a majority of the votes.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's leftist Worker's Party appears set to lose control of South America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, with polls showing voters will replace the mayor with the man who lost the presidential election to Silva two years ago.
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Defeated leftist presidential candidate Andr&#233;s Manuel L&#243;pez Obrador is creating a 'parallel government.'
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Leftist Rafael Correa has won Ecuador's run-off presidential election, a top electoral official says.
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The southern African nation of Namibia voted on Monday for a successor to the only leader the country has ever known, and election officials said the first of two days of voting started smoothly.
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Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rode an economic boom and her husband's popularity to victory in a presidential election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman leader.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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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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A former general who wants to use troops to fight crime stands a good chance of taking power in Guatemala after forcing a runoff with a leftist in a first round of voting for president.
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Early returns and major exit polls suggested that first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the presidency Sunday by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. She would be the first woman in Argentina elected to the post.
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Romania's centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu scored an upset victory in a presidential race against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, almost complete official results showed on Monday.
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The left made more inroads into Latin America in four elections this weekend as crisis-weary voters tired of decades of US-backed market reforms warmed to pragmatic
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East Timor's ruling party took an early lead on Monday over a party launched by resistance hero Xanana Gusmao, after a weekend parliamentary ballot in Asia's youngest nation.
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MONTEVIDEO  - Tens of thousands of supporters celebrated in the streets after the victory of Tabare Vazquez in becoming Uruguay&#39;s first leftist president.
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Mexican leftists, who say the July  2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their  "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing  the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.