Uruguay&#39;s left makes history in winning presidential vote
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Montevideo, Uruguay -- Tabare Vazquez, a Socialist doctor running as the candidate of an opposition coalition that includes former guerrillas, narrowly triumphed Sunday in the presidential election, bringing the left to power for the first time in this
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The leader of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista Front on Monday claimed victory for his party in weekend mayoral elections.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday to become the first woman elected to lead the country, television exit polls showed.
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MONTEVIDEO  - Tens of thousands of supporters celebrated in the streets after the victory of Tabare Vazquez in becoming Uruguay&#39;s first leftist president.
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Uruguayans dismayed with recent economic turmoil may elect their first leftist president Sunday, joining the leftward drift by voters across South America.
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Argentine first lady and senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is set for a resounding victory in the presidential election one week away, according to 10 different polls published on Sunday.
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Brazil&#39;s ruling party has made gains in Sunday&#39;s local elections seen as mid-term referendum on the government of left-leaning President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts.
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Democracy seems to have been successfully employed somewhere in the worldâthe Ukraine âas Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has declared victory in Ukraine âs presidential election.
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Argentine first lady Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is seen winning the October 28 presidential election by a wide margin, taking almost 48 percent of the vote, a poll showed on Friday.
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Fabian Estoyanoff scored in the 33rd minute to lead Uruguay past Northern Ireland 1-0 on Sunday in an exhibition game between teams that failed to qualify for next month&#039;s World Cup.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez won reelection by a wide margin yesterday, giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter US influence in Latin America and beyond.
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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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Mexican leftists, who say the July  2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their  "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing  the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez declared victory in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election Sunday after exit polls showed him surging past two rivals with a majority of the votes.
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Uruguay&#39;s left celebrated its first presidential victory into the wee hours Monday while partial election returns indicated Tabare Vazquez would win and his main challengers conceded on exit poll results.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 28 -- The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife Sunday, as first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner crushed 13 opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the political principles that made President NÃÂ¿stor Kirchner one of Latin America's most popular...