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"Chávez was not able to turn his world tours and anti-American rhetoric into enough votes to win the Council seat. But neither could the US impose its candidate, and it got bruised fighting Chávez off," says Miguel Tinker Salas, a specialist in Latin American issues at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.

"It's like the lightweight boxer who can hold off the heavyweight for rounds and rounds," he adds. "It ends up saying more about the limits of the heavyweight."

United Nations compromise shows limits to US power
With the preferred US plan out, Panama emerges as the choice for a Security Council seat.
By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON