Powerful mayor challenges Ecuador's Correa
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Carried on the shoulders of supporters, the mayor of Ecuador's largest city led a march of tens of thousands on Thursday, cementing his new role as the top opposition threat to President Rafael Correa.
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Members of President Hugo ChÃ¡vezâs family have repeatedly won strong victories in elections, but critics accuse them of abuses of power and corruption.
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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the government would suspend contracts with any foreign oil company found to have needlessly damaged the environment.
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Leftist Rafael Correa has won Ecuador's run-off presidential election, a top electoral official says.
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Ecuador's new leftist government said Thursday that it does not plan to dissolve Congress despite a bitter fight over a push to overhaul the country's charter that led protesters to storm the capitol this week.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Leftist candidate Rafael Correa pulled ahead in a poll on Saturday, hours before voters decide whether to elect him or his conservative rival as Ecuador's eighth president in a decade.
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Mexico City's leftist mayor led more than 150,000 demonstrators in a march Sunday to protest efforts to impeach him, an issue his supporters say threatens Mexico's political stability and pits "those on the bottom" against "those on top."
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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 votes after most ballot boxes were tallied, a top election official said on Tuesday.
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Latino groups in a US town mount a legal challenge to the local authorities' power to tackle illegal immigration.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.
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MEXICO CITY -- Newly named President-elect Felipe Calder&#xF3;n started building his administration yesterday, appealing to the middle-class voters who fueled his slim victory and working to win over poor Mexicans who believe he stole the election.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa proposed Saturday pardoning the lengthy jail sentences of low-level drug couriers known as "mules" and drafting new laws that better reflect the severity of drug crimes.
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A local city councilman in the town of Sestao, Spain, and a leader of the movement "Christians for Socialism," is criticizing the government's offensive against the Church, warning that the confrontation will ...
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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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Midway through his term, Mayor Villaraigosa struggles to fulfill campaign pledges, rebuild public approval.
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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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Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista Front sought to capitalize on the recent fracturing of a rival party during municipal elections Sunday amid ongoing attempts to remove the country's president from office.