Uribe's re-election also a win for U.S.
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s landslide re-election victory wasn&#039;t only celebrated in Colombia. The clear win for the law-and-order conservative was a triumph as well for U.S. policymakers, who some observers say may be losing Latin America to a rising tide of leftist nationalism.
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It may not be clear who won the presidency, but the July 2 election vividly demonstrated that Mexico is shifting toward a two-party system, with parties of the left and right holding the most seats in Congress.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - With a cry of "long live the revolution," anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election in a landslide after his challenger conceded on Sunday.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton rode a wave of Hispanic voter turnout to victory and John McCain benefited from voters concerned about the economy and Iraq as the nation's most populous state wielded its influence in the presidential nominating process for the first time in decades.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana's youthful President   Bharrat Jagdeo has won re-election in the former British   colony, authorities said on Thursday.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana's President Bharrat   Jagdeo, a free-market advocate, has won re-election after   sweeping to victory in peaceful elections on Monday in the   former British colony, authorities said on Thursday.
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was enough to ensure he would be able to govern. Vazquez declared himself winner a few hours. after compulsory voting ended in the nation of 3.4 million, and his two challengers conceded.
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From Wall Street to Detroit, there were plenty of sighs of relief as it became clear that President Bush had won another term. As one auto executive said, &quot;Bush has been a good president to work with.
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The decision was a significant victory for the government in the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was initially designated an âenemy combatant.â
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President Bush will begin his second term with an advantage he did not bring to his first: a mandate. Unlike in 2000, Bush won a popular-vote victory - a convincing one, unencumbered by judicial involvement.
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Democrats were winning the battle for control of the state House and Senate as election results rolled in Wednesday, though thousands of uncounted absentee ballots could still flip the results in several close races.
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Law-and-order President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in a landslide Sunday in Colombia&#039;s most peaceful elections in more than a decade, strengthening the U.S. ally&#039;s mandate to crack down on armed groups and drug traffickers.
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President Bush defeated John Kerry in Florida on Tuesday, staking a claim to the nation's top battleground state four years after it was the epicenter of a turbulent postelection drama.
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Landmark legislation to secure U.S. borders and offer millions of illegal immigrants a share of the American dream cleared the Senate on Thursday, a rare election-year reach across party lines and a triumph for President Bush.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez won reelection by a wide margin yesterday, giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter US influence in Latin America and beyond.
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The result was a boost to the Bush administration, which lost Spain as a coalition ally in March when a horrific terrorist attack on commuter trains in Madrid tipped the balance in parliamentary elections, and ...
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Liberal challenger Viktor  Yushchenko won a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential  election by a substantial margin according to an exit poll  published just after voting closed Sunday.