Powerful mayor challenges Ecuador's Correa
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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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Economic and social problems are so acute that President Hugo ChÃ¡vez is facing criticism even from his supporters.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off to elect the country's eighth president in a decade, three exit polls showed.
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Mexico City's leftist mayor led more than 150,000 demonstrators in a march Sunday to protest efforts to impeach him, an issue his supporters say threatens Mexico's political stability and pits "those on the bottom" against "those on top."
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Challenges abound for Leonel Fernandez as he returns to the presidency of the Dominican Republic on Monday and tries to lead the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades.
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Bolivia's leftist president must overcome steep bureaucratic obstacles and fierce political opposition before using his newly won right to seize huge swathes of land held by the country's richest and most powerful families.
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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.
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A television news anchor launched a campaign for mayor of this border city on Tuesday.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa led thousands in a march on Saturday to mark his first year in office, in a show of support for the leftist leader despite his falling approval ratings.
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President Morales dons his cleats to challenge an international soccer ruling that would bar Bolivia's national team from playing home games
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A leader of Mexico's largest leftist party led thousands of protesters in a march to the center of this historic city on Sunday, demanding the resignation of the state governor and the withdrawal of thousands of federal police.
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The leftist government of Mexico  City acknowledged on Friday its popular mayor is likely to be  knocked out of the race for the national presidency in 2006 in  a legal challenge backed by President Vicente Fox.
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MEXICO CITY -- Deadly assaults on two police stations by criminals wearing soldiers' uniforms have raised the pressure on Mexico's new president, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, to demonstrate that his much flaunted military-led crackdown on organized crime can stand up to the nation's powerful drug cartels.
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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, Nov. 27 -- Electoral officials Monday reported that economist Rafael Correa maintained a comfortable lead over  his opponent  in Sunday's presidential election, supporting several exit polls that had earlier predicted his victory.
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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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Tens of thousands of protesters gathered near Quito's presidential palace Wednesday to demand President Lucio Gutierrez's resignation, accusing him of authoritarian rule and with packing the supreme court with his own judges.