Governor claims win after clash in Mexico's Oaxaca
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OAXACA, Mexico  - The governor of Mexico's troubled Oaxaca state claimed victory in a six-month conflict on Sunday, after riot police fired tear gas and arrested scores of protesters trying to force him from office the day before.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions ahead  of 2006 presidential elections, in a close governor's race on  Sunday in Veracruz state.
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OAXACA, Mexico -- A heavy police presence in Mexico's troubled tourist city of Oaxaca has knocked the wind out of protests to oust a state governor, giving President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n room to breathe in his first days in office.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Protesters shot fireworks at riot police and burned down government buildings in Mexico's colonial city of Oaxaca on Saturday, days before President-elect Felipe Calderon was to take office.
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The Puerto Rico elections commission on Tuesday certified that Anibel Acevedo Vila won the governor race, a victory for a politician who supports the island's status as U.S. territory.
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Conservative ruling party candidate   Felipe Calderon won Mexico's ferociously contested July 2   presidential election, the country's top electoral court said   in a preliminary ruling on Tuesday.
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Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans. Police are nowhere in sight.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Mexicans in the  poverty-stricken state of Guerrero voted on Sunday for a new  governor, a day after gunmen killed three policemen and a youth  in bloody attacks that sent political tensions soaring.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, as it hit a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday in a chaotic ceremony rattled by fist fights in Congress and jeering protests from leftists who claim he stole a July election that sparked months of political unrest.
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Conservative ruling party candidate   Felipe Calderon won Mexico's July 2 election and is   president-elect, a top court said on Tuesday after a long fight   over fraud claims that has plunged the country into crisis.
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Angry protesters sabotaged a   home-town public appearance by Mexico's president-elect on   Friday in what may be a taste of resistance to his rule vowed   by a leftist rival claiming election fraud, media reported.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday but he faces a rough reception from leftist opponents who claim he stole July's election and plan to stop him from being sworn in later in the day.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest led by leftists who claim he stole July's election and have vowed to block him from taking the oath of office.
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Manuel Rosales, governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia, is runing against President Hugo Chavez in the 3 December elections.
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Mexico City's mayor said Tuesday his government was not intimidated by a bomb apparently intended for a police director, and pledged to forge ahead with the capital's battle against organized crime.
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Ruling party conservative Felipe   Calderon won Mexico's presidency on Tuesday, ending a long   legal battle over vote fraud claims, but his leftist rival   vowed to fight on in the streets.