Ecuador latest test for Latin leftists
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Voters head to the polls Sunday to choose between a US-educated professor and a billionaire businessman.
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Ecuador's Congress backs a call by the president for a referendum that could bring constitutional reform.
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CUENCA, Ecuador  - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat".
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MONTEVIDEO : Uruguay&#39;s leftist parties for the first time are heavily favored to end a 179-year conservative lock on the presidency in Sunday&#39;s elections in this South American nation plagued by growing poverty.
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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 vowing sweeping reforms in the unstable Andean country.
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Dall'America Latina: sinistra radicale sa difendersi da sola
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa led thousands in a march on Saturday to mark his first year in office, in a show of support for the leftist leader despite his falling approval ratings.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, appeared to have clinched Sunday's presidential run-off election after exit polls and one quick count showed he surged past his banana magnate rival to victory.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared to have clinched Sunday's run-off election after polls showed he surged past his banana magnate rival.
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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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The fractious outcome of a vote on autonomy for Bolivia&#039;s states and the government&#039;s apparent failure to win enough backing to rewrite the constitution could dampened the leftist agenda of President Evo Morales.
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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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The US eyes the right-leaning Mexican president as a bulwark against Latin America's leftist tide.
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A Mexican leftist politician launches his fourth attempt to win the country's presidency.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, headed to almost certain victory in Sunday's presidential runoff after promising reforms to rein in the discredited political elite.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - The front-runner in Ecuador's   presidential election joined his leftist backer, Venezuelan   leader Hugo Chavez, in bashing George W. Bush on Wednesday,   saying the devil should be offended that Chavez compared him to   the U.S. president.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Tens of thousands of protesterstook to the streets of Quito on Wednesday to protest what theycall the heavy-handed tactics of President Lucio Gutierrez anddemanded that he reverse his firing of the country's SupremeCourt.