Ecuador's Correa wins vote, faces tough task
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist vowing to rein in political elites, has won Sunday's presidential run-off with 57 percent of the vote after most ballot boxes were tallied, a top election official said on Tuesday.
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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.    But former President Jimmy Carter and the Organization of American States endorsed the results of Sunday's vote, which saw one of the biggest turnouts in Venezuela's history, and urged everybody to accept the outcome...
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A bill that would toughen border   security while giving millions of illegal immigrants a chance   to earn U.S. citizenship cleared key test votes in the U.S.   Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for passage this week   and a big battle with the House of Representatives.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs for the poor battled on Sunday in a tight vote to elect the country's eighth president in a decade.
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With only two weeks to go until election day, the radical leftist leader is fending off his opponents with a divide and conquer strategy
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President-elect Rafael Correa on Thursday denied that he plans to dissolve Ecuador's Congress, saying legislators would have "limited functions" while an all-powerful constituent assembly writes a new constitution.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Leftist candidate Rafael Correa pulled ahead in a poll on Saturday, hours before voters decide whether to elect him or his conservative rival as Ecuador's eighth president in a decade.
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Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in marches for and against the government in the capital, Quito.
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Mexico&#039;s young democracy faced its greatest test yet Monday as the pro-business Felipe Calderon declared himself president-elect with a 380,000-vote advantage and his leftist rival vowed to use all &quot;legal means&quot; to challenge that apparent outcome.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuadorean leftist Rafael Correa, a friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared close to securing the presidency of the politically unstable country, partial official results showed on Monday.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday despite fist fights in Congress and angry protests from leftists who say he stole July's election and had vowed to prevent him from taking office.
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Leftist economist Rafael Correa, in a tight race to win Sunday's presidential runoff, criticized President Bush Thursday for the Iraq invasion and claimed his policies led to the Republicans' congressional defeat.
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Ecuador's leftist president said he would not follow the lead of his close Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez and seek to abolish limits on his re-election, vowing he had no interest in perpetuating himself in power as part of his sweeping constitutional reforms.
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Ecuador reached the second round of the World Cup for the first time after beating Costa Rica 3-0 Thursday.
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But apparent victor Rafael Correa is unlikely to become as radical or isolationist as some have painted him.
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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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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.