Ecuador leftist Correa leads vote in official tally
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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 promising sweeping reform in the unstable Andean country.
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Supporters of leftist President Rafael Correa armed with sticks and stones fought their way into the Congress building Tuesday, demanding lawmakers call a referendum on whether the country's constitution should be rewritten.
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Voters chose a governor Sunday for Mexico's poorest state &#151; the latest political battleground for the leftist party that is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- In a blow to a weakened US influence in Latin America, a leftist economist, Rafael Correa, appeared to be sweeping to a lopsided victory in yesterday's presidential runoff.
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The results of an audit support the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this month's recall referendum in Venezuela, the head of the Organization of American States said Saturday.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Carried on the shoulders of supporters, the mayor of Ecuador's largest city led a march of tens of thousands on Thursday, cementing his new role as the top opposition threat to President Rafael Correa.
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Ecuador's Congress on Tuesday approved holding a referendum on whether to create an assembly to rewrite the constitution, bowing to demands by the new leftist president who is seeking to weaken traditional political parties.
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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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The incumbent Afghan president HamidKarzai has taken lead in the presidential polls as he had secured 77 percent of the votes counted so far, a spokesman of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said Saturday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to a clear re-election victory over his united opposition rival on Sunday, a government-paid exit poll showed but the opposition rejected such data.
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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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Initial results from Venezuela suggest President Chavez has a commanding lead in a referendum on his rule.
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Uruguay&#39;s first leftwing president in its 170-year history yesterday celebrated his election victory, consolidating a political swing to the left across South America.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa proposed Saturday pardoning the lengthy jail sentences of low-level drug couriers known as "mules" and drafting new laws that better reflect the severity of drug crimes.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Leftist presidential candidate Rafael Correa pulled ahead in a poll on Saturday, a day before Ecuadorean voters decide whether he or banana mogul Alvaro Noboa will be the country's eighth ruler in a decade.
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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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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