The leftist party has supported bailouts from international lenders while seeking to renegotiate the terms.
But Mr Weizman rejected the offer, preferring to support the leftist Shimon Peres.
For 12 years, Mexico City has been governed by AMLO and his successor Marcelo Ebrard, both from the leftist PRD party.
Its official: Twenty three billion dollars in private pension funds have been seized by the leftist government of Cristina Kirchner in Argentina.
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The oil-company workers were released days after the start of peace talks between the leftist rebels and the Colombian government in Cuba.
The document approved on July 25th by a Constituent Assembly dominated by supporters of Rafael Correa, the leftist president, is a 444-article behemoth.
For many, a vote for Calderon is a vote against the leftist candidate, Lopez Obrador, whom people in Mexico either love or hate.
Daniel Ortega, like his counterparts in the leftist parties of other South and Central American countries, has used Chavez's oil revenue to finance his election.
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Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the leftist Syriza party, which came in second, met with Samaras but said Monday he would not back a coalition.
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It may increase the chances of a return to power for Daniel Ortega, the leader of the leftist Sandinistas who governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990.
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In 1990, Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, leader of the leftist Colombian guerrilla movement M-19 who gave up violence to run for president, was assassinated on a plane.
The PRI and PAN, and smaller Green Party voted in favor, while the leftist parties led by the Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, opposed it.
The party with the second highest number of votes, the leftist Syriza, which is against austerity measures, has declined to be a part of the government.
Donziger met with the leftist president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and outtakes from the movie Crude suggest he urged the president to indict the Chevron lawyers.
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But in the capital, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon -- Aznar's candidate for mayor of Madrid -- declared victory after returns reversed an early lead for the leftist coalition.
But the possible victory of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), led by three-time presidential election loser Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has also made investors nervous.
The story is little better in the Czech Republic, where an election in June produced a result tied between a conservative-green coalition and the leftist opposition.
Ironically, Sik, who is now accused of membership in the Ergenekon plot, was an editor at the leftist weekly magazine Notka that "broke" the conspiracy story.
It's still a tight race, but the majority of polls in Mexico now show the leftist candidate ahead of his closest rival by a few percentage points.
While the international media and the leftist Israeli media greeted the Saudi plan enthusiastically, then prime minister Ariel Sharon did everything he could to discredit the initiative.
During his election campaign, Garcia assured Peru's business sector that he would not repeat the leftist populist policies of his 1985-1990 presidency - a promise he has kept.
Thousands of people have been killed in Colombia, a country of nearly 40 million people, in 38 years of war between the leftist rebels and the government and right-wing paramilitaries.
"If the presidential majority includes the Leftist Front, Mr. Hollande will have less room to maneuver, " said Stefan Collignon, a professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.
The five mine workers released by the leftist ELN (National Liberation Army) were also seized in January, in a dawn attack on a mining company in Bolivar province in northern Colombia.
Also, the markets are more concerned than they should be about the prospect that the leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will win Brazil's forthcoming presidential election ( see article).
Despite his differences with Chavez and generally moderate approach to economic policy, Lula can be expected to make renewed common cause with the leftist agenda if he is reelected on October 29.
During the Bush years, the so-called neoconservative camp believed it had formulated the means of convincing an American electorate dominated by the leftist media to support the projection of American power in the Islamic world.
Now, this is perhaps the toughest test so far because there is one point separating Mr. Calderon, from the Conservative National Election Party, and Mr. Lopez Obrador, from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
Correa has sought support on the issue from foreign ministers of the the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the leftist Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), who gathered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, this weekend.
"The Mexican electoral crisis deepened Tuesday, as the leftist candidate demanded a vote-by-vote recount and election officials acknowledged that up to 3 million votes had not been tallied in the preliminary results, " write James C.
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