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...referendum failed by a vote of 64 percent to 36 percent (a margin many Swiss found surprisingly thin...
...second referendum was held in 2001. It failed by a vote of 77 percent to 23 percent...
...time with his family. But the Senate's first Cuban-American member is also leaving under a cloud of frustration with his party's vitriol against immigration reform and the Sotomayor appointment. In 2008 the GOP's anti-immigration stance helped drop John McCain's share of the Latino vote to 31% - a 13-point plunge from the 44% George W. Bush won in 2004. Barack Obama not only won 67% of the total Hispanic vote last year, but he got a stunning 57% of that bloc in Florida, where the conservative Cuban-American vote usually holds sway...
...longer the stalemate continues, the closer the government gets to achieving its goal of holding a new presidential election in November. A fresh vote may allow Honduras to re-establish order and restore its tarnished image. "This was a constitutional succession," de facto President Roberto Micheletti said at a news conference. "I won't allow for people to call this a coup." But many other Latin American leaders see the maneuver as exactly that--and fear it might set a dangerous regional precedent...
...Johannesburg A Short Honeymoon for Zuma After a rousing May vote that saw scandal-plagued African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma elected President on a populist ticket, his charmed leadership has hit the rocks. With nearly 250,000 jobs eliminated in recent months, labor unions have taken to the streets to protest. Construction workers have threatened further strikes; earlier actions have already hindered projects planned for the 2010 soccer World...