Exit polls show Chavez heading to Venezuelan re-election
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to re-election on Sunday, according to an exit poll linked to the government that said the leftist had a wide lead over his united opposition rival.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias left here Saturday afternoon for Jinan to start the second leg of his five-day China tour in east China&#39;s Shandong Province.
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President Hugo Chavez sought another six-year term Sunday in an election that weighed the popularity of his oil-funded handouts to the poor against fears of increasingly authoritarian rule by one of the Bush administration's most outspoken opponents.
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On Sunday, Venezuelans will decide whether to cut short the president's term, which is due to end in 2006.
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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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Hugo Chávez, the strong-arm president of the oil power, Venezuela, has shown once again that he&#39;s a survivor. He beat back an attempted coup in 2002, and on Sunday handily won a hotly contested referendum that sought to remove him from office.
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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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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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Candidates backed by President Hugo Chavez swept all but two of 23 governorships in Sunday&#39;s regional elections, but opposition incumbents in two key states were re-elected, according to preliminary results announced by elections authorities.
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CARACAS -- Venezuelans deciding the fate of Hugo Chavez's presidency thronged polling stations in such overwhelming numbers yesterday that election officials were forced to extend voting hours until midnight. Many voters rose before dawn and lined up for hours to cast their votes on whether to recall Chavez, a populist former paratroop commander whose controversial rule has polarized this oil-rich ...
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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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Venezuelans voted for state governors and mayors on Sunday in a regional election expected to strengthen President Hugo Chavez&#39;s political power two months after he won a referendum on his rule.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the "red, really, red" of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, sweeping to re-election in Sunday's vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffles his cabinet, following a poll defeat of his reform proposals.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a champion of democracy.
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A U.S. pollster whose firm wrongly predicted President Hugo Chavez would lose a recall referendum on Thursday defended the exit poll, which has landed in the center of a national controversy.
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MARACAIBO, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez commanded a wide lead before Venezuela's election on Sunday, setting the stage for the self-styled revolutionary to intensify his anti-U.S., leftist crusade in Latin America.