Chavez allies and opposition vie for key posts as Venezuelans vote ...
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Allies of President Hugo Chavez and opposition candidates competed for key gubernatorial and mayoral posts in elections Sunday, with tens of thousands of police and soldiers on hand to prevent politically fueled clashes.
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Hugo Chavez is due to be declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential poll in a ceremony.
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A presidential candidate backed by Venezuela's major opposition parties pledged Thursday that, if elected, his government would remain independent of both U.S. and Cuban influence.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to decide whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office, waiting in mile-long lines as election officials promised to keep polls until everyone got to vote.    The sheer number of voters - believed to be a record in Venezuela - along with problems with electronic thumb-printing machines overwhelmed election authorities, who twice postponed the polls' closing to midnight, eight hours later than originally scheduled...
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A referendum is under way in Venezuela to decide if President Hugo Chavez should remain in office.
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Voters cast ballots for governors and mayors Sunday in elections expected to strengthen President Hugo Chavez&#39;s political power two months after he overwhelmingly won a referendum on his rule.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez looked set for re-election as Venezuelans prepared for a closely watched vote on Sunday on whether to hand the anti-U.S. leader six more years for his self-styled leftist revolution.
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Venezuela&#39;s opposition threatened on Friday to boycott regional elections following President Hugo Chavez&#39;s referendum win, which they say was fraudulent but which international observers say appeared legitimate.
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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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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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan lawmakers backing  left-wing President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday they were  working with opponents to rewrite parts of a media law that has  come under fire from critics who fear it will muzzle dissent.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday urged his opponents to recognize his recall referendum victory and pledged dialogue even with his &quot;most bitter enemies
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez appeared to have survived a popular referendum to oust him, according to early results Monday, while Venezuela's opposition swiftly claimed fraud.    Backers of the leftist populist president set off fireworks and began celebrating in the streets of the capital in the pre-dawn darkness upon hearing the news from Francisco Carrasquero, president of the National Elections Council...
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CARACAS -- The Venezuelan opposition yesterday refused to abandon its challenge to last Sunday's vote that gave a landslide victory to President Hugo Chavez, asserting that electronic voting machines must have been tampered with before voting began.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Left-wing President Hugo Chavez was seeking a strong mandate for his self-styled revolution on Sunday as Venezuelans went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect the former soldier for six more years.
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Spain's ruling Socialists face a battle to win back support in Madrid before next year's general election after the capital voted in favor of the opposition in regional polls.
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On Sunday, Venezuelans will decide whether to cut short the president's term, which is due to end in 2006.