Leftist Chavez ally leads in Ecuador vote
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, appeared to have clinched Sunday's presidential run-off election after exit polls and one quick count showed he surged past his banana magnate rival to victory.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez looked set to win as Venezuelans prepared for a closely watched vote on Sunday on whether to give the anti-U.S. leader six more years to wage his socialist "revolution."
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Montevideo, Nov. 1 (NNN): The left-wing candidate in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election, Tabare Vazquez, has claimed victory after exit polls put him firmly in the lead.
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Rafael CorreaÂs rise in Ecuador points to how varied, and persistent, the leftist groundswell has become in Latin America.
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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."
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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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At the time of this writing, the leadership of the opposition to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Coordinadora Democratica (CD), has not officially accepted Chavez&#39;s 58% - 42% victory in the August 15 recall referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - The opposition's long and bitter campaign to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez finally came down to a recall referendum Sunday, with the leftist leader hoping a huge turnout among the poor will keep him in power.    Officials from around the world - including Pope John Paul II and U.S...
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuadorean presidential candidate Rafael Correa's political movement "Alianza Pais" claimed victory in Sunday's run-off election, a spokesman told reporters.
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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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QUITO, Ecuador  - The front-runner in Ecuador's   presidential election joined his leftist backer, Venezuelan   leader Hugo Chavez, in bashing George W. Bush on Wednesday,   saying the devil should be offended that Chavez compared him to   the U.S. president.
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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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Venezuelans headed to the polls Sunday to elect regional leaders amid lingering concerns of voter fraud and the political opposition&#39;s discontent.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum on his divisive  rule in a vote backed on Monday by international observers who  found no "element of fraud."
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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 vowing sweeping reforms in the unstable Andean country.
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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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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, headed on Monday to almost certain victory in the presidential runoff after vowing reforms to rein in a discredited political elite.