Former Guerrillas Take Helm of Uruguay's Congress
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay  - Former left-wing guerrillas  who fought against the Uruguayan state in the 1970s were sworn  in on Tuesday to head the two houses of Congress as pivotal  players in the South American nation's historic shift to the  left.
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The former Chilean dictator's death provides a ghostly coda to a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to defeat have swept back into power across Latin America
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The leftist who a year ago was a hair's breadth from winning Mexico's presidency was reduced to political artifact on Sunday, drawing a fraction of his old crowds to an anniversary rally.
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Uruguay tapped Tabare Vazquez as its first socialist president in Sunday&#39;s election, joining a growing group of South American countries embracing leftist governments.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A gang chased a French  minister out of a Haitian slum under gunfire on Monday, while  former soldiers who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand  Aristide took control of a southern town and defied U.N. forces  to remove them.
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Uruguay strengthened South America&#39;s political tilt to the left, electing the country&#39;s first leftist president as part of a regional shift by voters disenchanted by US
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Uruguayan physician and former Montevideo Mayor Tabare Vazquez declared victory as the nation&#39;s next president after exit polls showed he won a majority of votes in the South American country.
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A former general who wants to use troops to fight crime stands a good chance of taking power in Guatemala after forcing a runoff with a leftist in a first round of voting for president.
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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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Members of the disbanded Haitian army have set up a base in the house of exiled former leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Dozens of opposition lawmakers took control of Congress Friday night &#151; minutes before President Vicente Fox was deliver a major address &#151; and refused to leave until heavy security surrounding the Congress was removed.
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China's Communists began winding up a five-yearly Congress on Sunday by announcing the Vice President was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu Jintao to install potential successors.
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Â· Venezuelan vice-president among reshuffle casualtiesÂ· Class war rhetoric toned down as inflation climbs
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MONTEVIDEO Â· Uruguayans strengthened South America&#39;s political turn to the left, electing the country&#39;s first leftist president as part of a regional shift by voters disenchanted by US-backed
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Former ArgentinePresident Carlos Menem, who aims to return to power, pledged onMonday to start cooperating with two judges who areinvestigating corruption charges against him.
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Alan Garcia returned to the presidency of Peru on Friday, pledging to battle poverty 16 years after ending his first term with the country wracked by economic chaos and spiraling political violence.
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Over a hundred deputies elected to  Bulgaria&#39;s parliament since the fall of communism had served in  the past as agents of the much-feared former secret police, a  Bulgarian historical commission said on Tuesday.