Chavez's Venezuela "red, really, red" after vote
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the "red, really, red" of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, sweeping to re-election in Sunday's vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - An audit of Venezuela's  referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the  poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition's  claims of massive vote rigging, international observers said on  Saturday.
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Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum on his divisive rule in a vote backed on Monday by international observers who found no "element of fraud."
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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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Venezuela is to take an audit of the vote which has kept President Chavez in office, after charges of fraud.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to  results released by electoral authorities on Monday with 94  percent of the vote counted.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    Scattered protests erupted in Caracas, despite an endorsement of the outcome by former President Carter and the Organization of American States...
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez survived a referendum to oust him, according to results Monday, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other election observers urged the opposition to accept the vote, deflating claims of fraud...
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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  victory in Sunday's referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - With a cry of "long live the revolution," anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election in a landslide after his challenger conceded on Sunday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - 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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was heading to re-election on Sunday, according to an exit pollster linked to the government that said preliminary results indicated he had a wide lead.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans turned out early  and in large numbers on Sunday to vote in a historic referendum  that will either remove left-wing President Hugo Chavez from  office or give him a new mandate to govern for the next two  years.
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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday praised his opponents for accepting defeat and said his overwhelming re-election victory shows Venezuela supports a radical turn toward socialism.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo  Chavez, emboldened by a recent referendum victory, on Sunday  promised tougher land redistribution as he pressed ahead with  the "revolutionary" reforms at the heart of the nation's  political conflict.
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The United States said Tuesday the vote by Venezuela's people to allow President Hugo Chavez to complete his term marks an end to the Latin American nation's political crisis.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist &quot;revolution&quot; and new democratic credentials with his resounding victory in Sunday&#39;s referendum.