Venezuelans Flood Polls, Voting Extended
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans voted in huge  numbers on Sunday in a historic referendum on whether to recall  left-wing President Hugo Chavez and electoral authorities  prolonged voting well into the night.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Voters turned out in huge numbers Sunday to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him and his social revolution that critics say has sidelined the middle class and fueled tensions between rich and poor.    Activists on both sides set off huge firecrackers and played recorded bugle songs to wake voters hours before dawn...
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East Timor&#039;s president extended his emergency powers and warned of possible early elections amid fresh fears of violence as thousands of supporters of the ex-premier massed on the edge of the capital.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez appeared almost certain to have survived a referendum that sought to oust him, the head of the elections commission said Monday.    With 94 percent of the vote counted, 58 percent voted to keep Chavez in office, said Francisco Carrasquero, president of the election commission...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed victory with a cry of "long live the revolution" as official results showed him heading for a landslide re-election win on Sunday.
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Outspoken leftist Hugo Chavez claimed victory in his bid for a new term as Venezuela's president Sunday after the bulk of returns showed him leading challenger Manuel Rosales by a wide margin.
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Soldiers used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter tens of thousands who massed Thursday to protest constitutional reforms that would permit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely.
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Hugo Ch&#225;vez's victory caps off the region's year of elections, but in many ways, Venezuela stands alone.
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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 also  vowing to intensify the reforms at the heart of the nation's  political conflict.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - The opposition's long and bitter campaign to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez finally came down to a recall referendum Sunday, with the leftist leader hoping a huge turnout among the poor will keep him in power.    Activists on both sides set off fireworks and blared recordings of bugle music to wake voters hours before dawn, hoping for a flood of early votes in their favor...
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Venezuela's parliament has named 17 new Supreme Court judges, increasing  the size of the country's highest court by more than half.
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Venezuelans voted for state governors and district mayors on Sunday in an election expected to consolidate President Hugo Chavez&#39;s control two months after he won a referendum on his rule.
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CARACAS -- Venezuelans voted resoundingly to keep firebrand populist Hugo Chavez as their president in a victory that drew noisy reactions yesterday from both sides in the streets. International observers certified the results as clean and accurate.
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When the rule of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was reaffirmed in a landslide 58-42 percent victory on Sunday, the opposition who put the recall vote on the ballot was stunned. They obviously don&#39;t spend much time in the nation&#39;s poor neighborhoods.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a wide margin over his main challenger as he seeks a third term in Dec. 3 elections, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also revealed many government opponents are worried they could face reprisals for how they vote.
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Under pressure from opponents of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's elections council has adopted safeguards for the country's electronic voting machines to prevent tampering in Sunday's election &#151; conditions so strict that experts say they surpass some standards in the United States.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.    Chavez won 58 percent of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007...