Venezuela's Chavez storms to re-election victory
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stormed to a re-election victory in Sunday's vote, handing him an ample mandate to broaden his promised socialist revolution and challenge Washington's influence in Latin America.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez looked set to win as Venezuelans prepared for a closely watched vote on Sunday on whether to give the anti-U.S. leader six more years to wage his socialist "revolution."
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Crime has soared in Venezuela. Yet President Hugo ChÃ¡vez appears headed to re-election on Sunday.
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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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President Hugo Chavez is predicting a crushing victory Sunday as he seeks another six-year term in an election that could further entrench Latin America's most defiant voice against U.S. foreign policy.
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Initial results from Venezuela suggest President Chavez has a commanding lead in a referendum on his rule.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.    Chavez won 58 percent of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to  preliminary results released by the country's top electoral  officer on Monday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez appeared to have survived a popular referendum to oust him, according to early results Monday, while Venezuela's opposition swiftly claimed fraud.    Backers of the leftist populist president set off fireworks and began celebrating in the streets of the capital in the pre-dawn darkness upon hearing the news from Francisco Carrasquero, president of the National Elections Council...
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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday praised his opponents for accepting defeat and said his overwhelming re-election victory shows Venezuela supports a radical turn toward socialism.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 16 -- President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner of a national recall referendum by a substantial margin on Monday, and said he had won a fresh mandate for the highly centralized, populist style of government that has stirred fierce opposition at home and irritated the Bush administration.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the "red, really red" of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, after sweeping to re-election in Sunday's vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela - Voters turned out in huge numbers Sunday to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him and his social revolution that critics say has sidelined the middle class and fueled tensions between rich and poor.    Activists on both sides set off huge firecrackers and played recorded bugle songs to wake voters hours before dawn...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffles his cabinet, following a poll defeat of his reform proposals.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his rival averted a bloodbath in the polarized OPEC nation by quickly conceding defeat without contesting his landslide re-election on Sunday.
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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.