Leftist wins historic Uruguayan presidential election
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Socialist Tabare Vazquez scored a historic victory late on Sunday in Uruguay&#39;s presidential voting as exit polls showed his coalition that includes former guerrilla fighters with more than 50 per cent of votes cast.
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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, apparently aligning this small South American country with
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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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Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared victory Sunday night as election returns showed her leading all rivals in her bid to succeed her husband and become the country's first female president.
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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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The ruling party&#039;s Felipe Calderon won the official count in Mexico&#039;s disputed presidential race Thursday, a come-from-behind victory for the stiff technocrat. But his leftist rival refused to concede and said he&#039;d fight the results in court.
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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 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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Uruguayans dismayed with recent economic turmoil may elect their first leftist president Sunday, joining the leftward drift by voters across South America.
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Uruguay tapped Tabare Vazquez as its first socialist president in Sunday&#39;s election, joining a growing group of South American countries embracing leftist governments.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - 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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Â¡Â¡BEJIJING, Dec. 14 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won the presidential election after overcoming current Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the tightest of contests.
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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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Ruling party conservative Felipe   Calderon won Mexico's presidency on Tuesday, ending a long   legal battle over vote fraud claims, but his leftist rival   vowed to fight on in the streets.
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Leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa won a major victory on Tuesday when Congress approved his request for a referendum on rewriting the politically unstable country's constitution.
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Liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election by a substantial margin according to an exit poll published just after voting closed Sunday.
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Uruguayan physician and former Montevideo Mayor Tabare Vazquez declared victory as the nation&#39;s next president after exit polls showed he won a majority of votes in the South American country.