Guatemalan ex-general leads presidential race
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A hard-line former general who wants an army crackdown on rampant crime led Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, but he lacked enough support to avoid a November 4 runoff, results showed.
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Alvaro Colom was sworn in on Monday as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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A former army general looks set to snatch Indonesia&#39;s presidency by a landslide in next week&#39;s election run-off, two surveys showed on Wednesday, but incumbent
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The reasons why Rigoberta Menchu, the first indigenous presidential candidate in Guatemala, lost nationwide elections on Sunday are as complex as the Mayans themselves.
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Rasmussen Reports - Arizona Senator John McCain (R) continues to lead Senator Hillary Clinton (D) and former Vice-President Al Gore (D) in the latest Rasmussen Reports Election 2008 poll.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu lashed out Monday against a Guatemalan high court decision not to arrest or extradite former military officers accused of genocide, torture and terrorism committed at the height of Guatemala's civil war.
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A former general who has pledged to fight terror and fix the economy was headed for a landslide win over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's landmark elections Monday, according a nationwide sampling of votes.    Challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was expected to win 62 percent of the votes compared to 38 percent for Megawati in the runoff election, according to the survey conducted by the Washington-based National Democratic Institute, the international arm of the U.S...
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Guatemalans rattled by soaring crime and a wave of campaign-related violence will decide in elections Sunday between a former general who promises law and order and a three-time presidential contender who says he will focus on reducing poverty.
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Early returns from Monday&#39;s presidential election in Indonesia show former security minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has taken an early lead over incumbent, Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  clung to a narrow lead early on Monday in the race for governor  in Veracruz state, where it is fighting to hold on to one of  its oldest electoral bastions before 2006 presidential  elections.
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Security, immigration and trade are on the agenda as George Bush visits Guatemala as part of his Latin America tour.
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A former education minister seeking to become Paraguay's first female president held a narrow lead on Monday in a race for the ruling party's presidential nomination, partial results showed.
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MEXICO CITY -- Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Maya Indian who has long been a symbol of indigenous pride and defiance, has announced that she will be a candidate in Guatemala's presidential election.
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Early returns from Indonesia&#39;s presidential election suggest former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken the lead against incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party, Simba Makoni, said on Tuesday he will run for president in the March 29 election in what could be the first major internal challenge to Robert Mugabe in 20 years.
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Ex-political prisoner narrowly ahead of the president as tension increases over vote-counting delays