Ecuador leftist heads for victory after vote
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, headed on Monday to almost certain victory in the presidential runoff after vowing reforms to rein in a discredited political elite.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist vowing to rein in political elites, has won Sunday's presidential run-off with 57 percent of the vote after most ballot boxes were tallied, a top election official said on Tuesday.
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Uruguay&#39;s leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez won a historic victory in Sunday&#39;s presidential elections with more than 50 percent of the ballot.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Indigenous groups and  independent candidates were poised to win local elections in  Bolivia on Sunday, while support for traditional parties sank  further after a popular revolt last year toppled former  president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
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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.
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Uruguay has elected its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, who joins a growing list of left-leaning leaders in South America.
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QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 26 -- Early returns suggested that a young reformer promising to break free from the country's traditional power brokers defeated the nation's wealthiest man in Sunday's election to become Ecuador's eighth president in a decade.
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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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Defeated leftist presidential candidate Andr&#233;s Manuel L&#243;pez Obrador is creating a 'parallel government.'
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Uruguay&#39;s leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez is headed for victory in presidential elections with an estimated 50.9 to 53 percent of the vote, exit polls and pollster projections showed.
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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.
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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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Leftist economist Rafael Correa, who calls himself a friend of Venezuela's anti-U.S. leader Hugo Chavez, officially was declared president-elect on Monday by Ecuador's top electoral court.
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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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QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 27 -- Electoral officials Monday reported that economist Rafael Correa maintained a comfortable lead over  his opponent  in Sunday's presidential election, supporting several exit polls that had earlier predicted his victory.
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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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A Mexican leftist politician launches his fourth attempt to win the country's presidency.