Nobel laureate Menchu to run for Guatemalan presidency
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MEXICO CITY -- Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Maya Indian who has long been a symbol of indigenous pride and defiance, has announced that she will be a candidate in Guatemala's presidential election.
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Will he run for the US presidency one day?
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Paraguay's ruling party on Monday nominated a former education minister seeking to become Paraguay's first female leader as its presidential candidate, ending a month-long dispute over a primary election result.
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Disgraced Peruvian ex-President Alberto Fujimori has decided to run for Japan's upper house of parliament in July despite being under house arrest in Chile, the head of a Japanese party said Thursday.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia  - Damiana Katari, who knits clothes for a living and wears long black braids, a bowler hat and layers of colored skirts, proudly voted to elect fellow Aymara Indian Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia.
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Former Argentina President Carlos Menem announced Monday he will return to his country this week to organize for another presidential bid, after an Argentine judge dismissed an arrest warrant against him.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Former Argentine  President Carlos Menem, who aims to return to power, pledged on  Monday to start cooperating with two judges who are  investigating corruption charges against him.
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga has been nominated by the leaders of the three Baltic states to run for the post of United Nations secretary general, the president's spokeswoman has said.
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As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Al Gore now comes under heavy pressure to launch a presidential bid
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Colombian Nobel-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is to join government peace talks with ELN rebels.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's radical Indian leader  Evo Morales, who has infuriated Washington with calls to  legalize coca farming, has come first in municipal elections  that are seen as a springboard for a 2007 presidential vote.
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Peruvian former president Alberto Fujimori, in Chile facing extradition to Peru on human rights violations charges, is considering a request to run for office in Japan, aides said Tuesday.
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Former US vice president Al Gore is seen as a possible winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the planet from global warming, the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute has said.Comment
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Jose Ramos-Horta, the Nobel  Peace Prize winner who took over as East Timor's prime minister  last year, formally announced on Sunday he would run for the  presidency in April's election.
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Guatemala's first leftist president in 50 years, Alvaro Colom, took office Monday with a pledge to help the poor.
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh on Sunday announced the name of a political party he plans to form soon, saying there is no way he can stay out of politics.
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga joined the race to become the next U.N. secretary-general on Friday, becoming the first woman vying for the U.N.'s top post.