With his new term and the slow demise of his hero Fidel Castro , who was too ill to attend his own 80th birthday celebrations in Havana over the weekend , Mr. Chavez may indeed solidify his place as the new the standard-bearer of the left in Latin America , where leftist candidates have won presidential elections in the last five weeks in Brazil , Ecuador , Nicaragua and Venezuela .
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