Ecuador leader: Won't stay in power
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Ecuador's leftist president said he would not follow the lead of his close Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez and seek to abolish limits on his re-election, vowing he had no interest in perpetuating himself in power as part of his sweeping constitutional reforms.
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BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 20 -- Six of Bolivia's nine regional governors have severed communications with President Evo Morales's government in recent days, intensifying protests against the ruling party's efforts to rewrite the constitution, implement a controversial land reform policy and limit the...
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Ecuador's president-elect joins a wave of Latin American leaders swept into power opposing the free-market economic policies that are preached by Washington but are hugely unpopular among the region's poor.
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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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MEXICO CITY -- Andr&#xE9;s Manuel L&#xF3;pez Obrador has given up efforts to have himself declared winner of Mexico's presidential race, but he still plans a parallel government to cater to the poor and keep alive his fight against the president-elect, a party spokesman said yesterday.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Ecuadoran President-elect Rafael Correa said yesterday Colombia's renewed program to fumigate illegal drug crops on the border was a "hostile act," escalating a diplomatic spat between the South American neighbors.
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President Alvaro Uribe pledged Thursday not to extradite the country's top right-wing paramilitary leader to the United States to face drug trafficking charges provided he ceases all illegal activities and stays in peace talks.
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East Timor President Xanana Gusmao said on  Thursday he would step down if the country&#039;s prime minister  refuses to take responsibility for a weeks-long crisis in which  the country has been racked by violence.
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QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 26 -- Unofficial exit polls and quick counts 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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Tens of thousands of protesters gathered near Quito's presidential palace Wednesday to demand President Lucio Gutierrez's resignation, accusing him of authoritarian rule and with packing the supreme court with his own judges.
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Drug traffickers have threatened the government but that will not stop a nationwide crackdown, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he will not seek a third consecutive term as Brazil's leader, but will try to influence the choice of his successor who might come from outside his ruling party.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador has fired the popular  director of Galapagos National Park even as environmentalists  criticized authorities for failing to take better care of the  pristine islands.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs squared off on Sunday in a tight vote to choose the country's eighth president in a decade.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared close to victory in Sunday's presidential run-off election after exit polls and unofficial counts showed he had surged ahead of his banana magnate rival.
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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 promising broad reforms in the unstable Andean country.
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President Luiz In&#xE1;cio Lula da Silva said in an interview published yesterday that he will not seek a third consecutive term as Brazil's leader but will try to influence the choice of his successor, who might come from outside his party.