* With Election Day less than a month away, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez leads Manuel Rosales by 22% according to one poll.* Chilean president Michelle Bachelet (image) inaugurated the Socialist International conference by urging left-wing leaders to embrace globalization and fight those who “seek an accumulation of wealth that excludes many.”
* Police in the Dominican Republic fought with protestors upset at a planned transportation tax that forms part of a tax package advocated by the International Monetary Fund.
* Forty of the world’s top banks are in the hunt to finance the expansion of the
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