Nor does the Bush administration have much support in Latin America, where left-leaning leaders now govern two-thirds of the continent.

Washingron has been unable to grasp the widespread reaction against free market changes across Latin America, changes now being rolled back by left-leaning leaders.

Europe's uncertain prospects have aggravated the running battle between some left-leaning political leaders and the conservative monetarists at the European Central Bank.

Opposition to the project is intense and spreading, fueled by left-leaning indigenous leaders who strongly reject the Chilean option.

Together with six prominent left-leaning leaders from trade unions, the breakaway members established this new party.

She is one of several left-leaning Latin American leaders to have cancer.

Three-quarters of the region's 355 million people are now governed by left-leaning leaders, all of whom have emerged in the past six years to redefine what the left means today.

His cooperation with the United States has cost him significant political clout, however, among an increasing number of left-leaning leaders across Latin America.

In Honduras, a coup removed the country's elected left-leaning leader with the apparent tacit approval of the Obama administration.

But it also threatened to open a schism among the region's new wave of left-leaning leaders.