In Uruguay, a leftist former rebel, Jose Mujica, was declared the winner of a Presidential runoff vote after his opponent ex-president Luis Lacalle conceded defeat.<br/><br/>The co-founder of the radical leftist Tupamaros movement addressed cheering supporters in a triumphant speech that reached out to Lacalle and the opposition. <br/><br/>Lacalle, who governed Uruguay from 1990 to 1995, conceded defeat after exit polls showed Mujica had won some 51 percent of the vote.<br/><br/>The result, in an election triggered after neither candidate garnered an absolute majority in an October first-round vote, makes Mujica the second former Latin American rebel to be elected president recently, after Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, an ex-Sandinista.<br/>