Leftist a threat to Brazil president
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Thanks mostly to a robust economy, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been coasting to re-election victory in two months. But a new threat is rising.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, facing a run-off in Brazil's election, is toning down his class-war rhetoric in a bid to woo the middle class and business votes that cost him a first-round victory.
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Moves are launched in Brazil to remove the senate leader, a key ally of President Lula, amid a corruption scandal.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva lost four points in the past five days from his   commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's presidential   race, a poll showed on Friday.
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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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Brazilians are due to vote as President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's poll lead narrows amid corruption allegations.
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Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A Brazilian presidential   candidate's campaign rally bumped into a harsh reality on   Wednesday in the form of armed gang members in a Rio de Janeiro   slum who ordered them to take a detour.
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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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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva was battling to secure the votes needed to clinch an outright victory in Sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.
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Brazilian was shot by anti-terror police because he became "aggressive and threatening" when challenged, Met lawyer says.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Nagging corruption scandals thwarted Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's hopes of clinching a first-round election victory and he now faces a high-stakes run-off against an inspired rival.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must fight his main challenger in a run-off vote after many Brazilians turned against him in Sunday's presidential election and punished the former union leader for a string of corruption scandals.
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More than 8,000 Brazilian landless activists surrounded the central bank on Thursday and threatened a big fight over land next year unless they get more public money to speed up land reform.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's leftist Worker's Party appears set to lose control of South America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, with polls showing voters will replace the mayor with the man who lost the presidential election to Silva two years ago.
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Irate Brazilian legislators told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday to tone down his criticism of their Congress or he would endanger Venezuela's entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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By Tiago Pariz BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's biggest party votedto leave the governing coalition on Sunday in a move that couldcomplicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reform agendaand pressure him to give the centrist party more Cabinet posts.