Int&#39;l community recognizes Chavez&#39;s victory
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BEIJING, Aug.18 (Xinhuanet) -- The international community has recognized and welcomed President Hugo Chavez&#39;s victory in the Venezuelan referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - An audit of Venezuela's  referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the  poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition's  claims of massive vote rigging, international observers said on  Saturday.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds his final election rally in front of hundreds of thousands of supporters.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- China on Tuesday expressed its respect for Venezuela&#39;s referendum result and said it was glad for the smooth operation of the referendum.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech to supporters during a meeting at the Caracas square 27 August 2004 in Caracas.
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Members of the Ukrainian-Canadian community were taking Viktor Yushchenko's apparent victory in the Ukrainian presidential election in stride Monday, simply content to see that democracy had prevailed.
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An audit by international observers supported official election results that gave President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela victory in a referendum to recall him, the secretary general of the Organisation of American States said.
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Oil-rich nations brushed off a push by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to cut production, but he used the OPEC meeting to push for expanding the cartel&#039;s membership and praised Bolivia&#039;s nationalization of its natural gas industry.
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Venezuela's electoral officials say an audit of the vote on President Hugo Chavez's rule shows it was fair.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Libya on Sunday awarded its annual Moammar Gadhafi human rights prize to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for resisting &quot;imperialism&quot; and being a champion of the poor.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    Scattered protests erupted in Caracas, despite an endorsement of the outcome by former President Carter and the Organization of American States...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged Thursday that Venezuela will support Iran if it is invaded as a result of the Middle Eastern nation's high-stakes nuclear standoff with the United Nations Security Council.
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CARACAS -- Fresh from victory and emboldened by a decisive mandate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has the opportunity to extend an olive branch to a seething opposition and a suspicious US ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist  "revolution" and new democratic credentials with his resounding  win in Sunday's referendum.
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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.