Uruguay&#39;s left makes history in winning presidential vote
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Montevideo, Uruguay -- Tabare Vazquez, a Socialist doctor running as the candidate of an opposition coalition that includes former guerrillas, narrowly triumphed Sunday in the presidential election, bringing the left to power for the first time in this
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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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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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Victories would put the PRI on track to win back the presidency after losing it in 2000 to President Vicente Fox&#39;s center-right National Action Party (PAN) after 71 years of uninterrupted rule.
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Fabian Estoyanoff scored in the 33rd minute to lead Uruguay past Northern Ireland 1-0 on Sunday in an exhibition game between teams that failed to qualify for next month&#039;s World Cup.
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Mexican leftists, who say the July  2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their  "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing  the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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Uruguay have put their World Cup qualifying campaign back on course with a controversial 1-0 win over Ecuador while Chile and Colombia shared four red cards and no goals in a grim encounter.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president yesterday as he courted another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to coopt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 28 -- The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife Sunday, as first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner crushed 13 opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the political principles that made President NÃÂ¿stor Kirchner one of Latin America's most popular...
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Mexican leftists, who say the July   2 election was stolen, declared their candidate the "legitimate   president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing the risk of   street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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Argentine first lady Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is seen winning the October 28 presidential election by a wide margin, taking almost 48 percent of the vote, a poll showed on Friday.
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The left made more inroads into Latin America in four elections this weekend as crisis-weary voters tired of decades of US-backed market reforms warmed to pragmatic
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Romania&#39;s centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu has scored an upset victory in a presidential race against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official results show.
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Uruguay's Congress approves a bill which could make it the first Latin American country to allow civil unions.
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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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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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Votes are counted in Argentina, as exit polls suggest Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be president.