Vicente Fox

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Vicente Fox Quesada (American Spanish; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as Mexico's 62nd president from 1 December 2000 to 31 November 2006.

Fox ran for and was elected president of the National Action Party (PAN) in 2000, becoming the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero's 1911 election. Fox gained the election with 42 percent of the vote.

As president, he maintained the neoliberal economic policies that his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the 1980s. The first half of his administration saw a change in the federal government's left, strong links with the US and George W. Bush, failed attempts to implement a value-added tax to drugs and the construction of an airport in Texcoco, and a diplomatic confrontation with Cuban President Fidel Castro. The assassination of human rights advocate Digna Ochoa in 2001 cast doubt the Fox administration's pledge to breaking with the draconian past of the PRI period.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then Mayor of Mexico City, marked the second half of his administration. The PAN and the Fox administration tried unsuccessfully to depose López Obrador from office and barre him from running in the 2006 presidential elections. Since promoting the establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which was opposed by those two countries, the Fox administration became embroiled with diplomatic tensions with Venezuela and Bolivia. Felipe Calderón's last year in office influenced the turbulent 2006 elections, in which the PAN nominee Felipe Calderón was declared winner by a narrow margin over his opponent López Obrador, who argued the elections had been fraudulent and refused to reveal the results, has triggered demonstrations around the country. During the San Salvador Atenco riots, civil strife in Oaxaca erupted into demonstrations and violent clashes calling for the ouster of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz, as a teacher's strike erupted into protests and violent clashes, where the state and federal governments were found guilty by the Inter-American Court of Human rights abuses during the state and federal government in the state and federal government's civil war, civil war, civil war, where civil war, where civil war riots, where riots and riots, where civil unrest during the government of human rights abuses and violent rec rexaque re the rexacion rexaquez Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortiz Ortia human rights abuse during the state and Federal government of human rights abuse during the Inter-American Human Rights of human rights abuse during the state and federal governments were later found guilty of human rights abuse during the state and Federal governments were later repression during the state and federal government's. On the other hand, Fox was credited with maintaining economic growth during his tenure and lowering the poverty rate from 43.7% in 2000 to 35.6% in 2006.

Fox returned to Guanajuato, Mexico, after being president. He has been active in public speaking and the construction of the Vicente Fox Center for Studies, Library, and Museum. He is currently the co-president of Centrist Democrat International, a worldwide group of center-right political parties.

In 2013, Fox was booted from the PAN after having supported Enrique Pea Nieto, the PRI presidential nominee, in the 2012 elections. José Antonio Meade, the PRI candidate, was endorsed by Fox in the 2018 election.

Early years

Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City on July 2nd, the second of nine children. José Luis Fox Pont, his father, was born in Mexico and died. Mercedes Quesada Etxaide's mother, Mercedes Quesada Etxaide, was a Basque immigrant from San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Fox spent his childhood and adolescence at the family ranch in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato. Fox has polydacty, with six toes on each foot.

He attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he learned English. Fox then moved to Mexico City to complete a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1964. Fox received a Harvard Business School certificate in 1974 for his management skills.

Fox was hired by the Coca Cola Company as a route supervisor and pushed a delivery truck in 1964. After nine years in office, he had risen to the top, serving as both the President and Chief Executive of Coca-Cola Mexico for six years; but, unfortunately, Fox was forced to lead all of Coca-Cola's Latin America operations, but later resigned from Coca-Cola in 1979. Coke became Mexico's top-selling soft drink during the Fox's leadership of Coca-Cola Mexico, raising Coca-Cola's sales by nearly 50%.

Fox began participating in various public appearances in Guanajuato, where he created the "Patrona Amigo Daniel", an orphanage, after being retired from Coca-Cola. He served as the president of Patronato Loyola, a sponsor of the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Lux Institute of León.

Lilian de la Concha, a Coca-Cola receptionist, was married by Fox in 1969. Ana Cristina, Vicente, Paulina, and Rodrigo were their four children. Lilian filed for and was granted a divorce in 1990, 20 years of marriage.

When serving as President of Mexico, Fox remarried on July 2nd, 2001 (until then as his spokesperson). The wedding date was the first anniversary of his presidential election and his 59th birthday. It was their second marriage for both Fox and Sahagn Jiménez.

Post-presidential life

Since leaving office in December 2006, Fox has been in the public eye by speaking in countries like Nigeria, Ireland, Canada, and the United States on topics such as the 2006 election and the Iraq War. Former Mexican presidents have been chastised for their burgeoning post-presidency in Mexico, and former Mexican presidents are often expected to remain out of the political spotlight. "There is no reason to adhere to the authoritarian past's authoritarian laws," Fox has said. . .. Now that Mexico is a republic, every individual has the right to express himself, even a former president."

At the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, Vicente Fox spoke with four other Latin American presidents to address the Telefónica Millennial Survey. Those in the audience told him that combating graft "has to start with education" and that his primary concern now is in advancing leadership.

Vicente Fox is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, a not-for-profit group that provides a diverse range of trusted advisors to political leaders in times of crisis.

At the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye, Fox talked about why the West has embarked on a moral crusade against drugs. With Chris Bryant and John Ralston Saul, they will coexist. The three debated whether it is hypocritical to ban such medications while still exporting others, such as alcohol and nicotine, and whether it should take the example of Washington and Colorado states in the United States and encourage drug free trade.

Vicente Fox referred to the demise of heroin prohibition in a video interview with High Times in July 2013 and praised Portugal's decriminalization programs as "working marvellously." Despite not being a patient or an expert, he supports opioid legalization, but he does not agree with it.

In February 2014, Fox wrote an opinion piece in Toronto's The Globe and Mail in which he said that "legalization of not only marijuana but also all drugs is the right thing to do." "We must have the absolute right to choose our own behavior and to act responsibly," he said, as long as we do not adversely affect the rights of others.

Fox co-signed a letter in 2016 calling for a more humane drug policy.

In July 2017, Fox was an international observer to the opposition's unofficial Venezuelan referendum. Fox made a speech on the trip comparing the referendum to the 2000 Mexican elections. "This war has been won," he said, and "step by step, vote by mail, the tyrant will leave" and "step by step." He was subsequently designated a person non grata by the Venezuelan government. Fox had profited from Venezuela's hospitality, according to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Samuel Moncada, "was paid to come to Venezuela to promote violence and foreign control." The ban came from Maduro, who condemned Fox and the other senior Latin American politicians who had been invited as observers (Andrés Pastrana, Jorge Quiroga, Laura Chinchilla, and Miguel ngel Rodro) who "sell themselves to various destinations and repeat what they are told," Moncado said. Fox said he was not surprised by the outrage and that the vote would weaken Maduro.

Fox became a member of the High Times board of directors in 2018. He resigned from the board of directors in 2020 due to questions surrounding the company's stock offering.

Beginning with Trump's campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race, Fox has been a vocal critic of US President Donald Trump.

In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos in February 2016, Fox responded to then-candidate Trump's call to build a wall across the Mexican-American border at Mexico's expense by saying in English, "I am not going to pay for that fucking wall." He should pay for it. He has the money. Fox called Trump a "crazy guy" and a "false prophet," and challenged the assertion that Trump received 44% of the Republican caucus in Nevada. In reaction, Trump took to Twitter to request that Fox apologise for using "the F word when discussing the wall." Fox later apologised for the remark, but also asked for Trump's apology for his remarks against Mexicans and inviting Trump to visit Mexico.

Despite his apology, Fox continued to criticize Trump, international media, and troll Trump on Twitter, saying, "I'm committed to being Donald Trump's shadow until he's done with politics." Fox will later announce congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and his win in the 2020 US presidential election, defeating Trump. Fox slammed the trip as Trump arrived in Mexico on August 31st, welcoming President Enrique Pea Nieto's invitation. We don't like him. We don't like him. "We're against his visit." Trump responded by pointing out Fox's previous invitation, in which Fox Fox also said that he welcomed Trump to Mexico on the condition that he apologized to the Mexican people. The next day, Trump called him a "true prophet" who is "absolutely insane" and warned that people must "wake up" and accept the risks that Trump's immigrant and economic policies will have on the United States.

Fox had received numerous emails from Trump's campaign soliciting contributions throughout the month, according to the Washington Post in September 2016. On September 9, Fox received his first email, which he sent via Twitter and said, "Donald Trump, I will not pay for the fucking wall!"

Also, campaigning in Mexico?

Running out of money and friends?"

On Saturday and September 26, Fox received two additional emails, one of which he also posted on Twitter and mocked as being "desperate" and "begging." The revelation of the emails has sparked questions, as receiving campaign contributions from foreign nationals is unlawful in the United States.

Fox smashed a Trump piata hanging on the streets of Los Angeles during a September 2016 appearance on El Show de Pioln, a conservative Piol song. Fox remarked on the content's absence and declared, "Empty." Totally Empty. He doesn't have any brains." "I had such a joy in my heart by doing it," Fox continued in his interview with GQ. Piatas are particularly meaningful in Mexico. Piatas are a holiday. You can send messages from Piatas. And the news is: Trump is empty inside. He's got a hole in his head. That's why I stuck my hand into his head. There was no brain in the room. He is just an empty person.

Fox wrote an editorial on the International Business Times website the day after Trump's victory and wondered what Mexico could do in reaction. "Even though Trump isn't the prettiest person in the room, we still have to dance with him." Now, we have to look out for ourselves and find a way to work with the world's most coveted economy, which is now dominated by an authoritarian nationalist [...]Donald Trump's promises have come to an end. "I find it surprising that America, the former most democratic and cutting edge world, has chosen to cement walls" when it comes to truly deliver to the American people," Fox wrote, concluding his article with, "I find it sad that the United States, once the most open and cutting edge world, has chosen to lock itself down inside concrete walls." Fear, indignation, and wrath have taken over and pierced the hearts of their peoples, it's tragic. It will be difficult to recover from this injury, but we should start healing as soon as possible, and we should knock down the walls that had blinded us in the beginning.

Since the election, Fox has been on Twitter mocking Trump. Fox blasted Trump's suggested Mexican border wall in a series of tweets in January 2017, describing it as a "racist monument" and insisting that Mexico will never fund it. "The intelligence report, Mr Trump," Fox tweeted after the release of a US government intelligence report accusing Russia of meddling in the 2016 election to ensure Trump's victory. More than 3 million votes have been cast in the Los Angeles election, with others gaining more than 400,000.

Are you a legitimate president?"

Fox sluggishly dismissed Trump's reaction to the intelligence report, calling him a "bully" and a "bluff" and claiming that Trump is "bringing in a new age of dictatorship." However, Fox quit mocking Trump and tweeted, "America Will Survive" on Tuesday, January 12th.

In an interview with Anderson Cooper on January 25, 2017 and during a late night talk show with Conan O'Brien on March 1, 2017, Mexico should not have to pay for the wall.

After President Trump said he would suspend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months if the US congress failed to pass legislation to fix the issue, Fox was back in the news in September 2017. "Ending DACA is on the top of the worst acts you've performed off," Fox tweeted in reaction to President Trump's Twitter account. You're jeopardizing the legacy of greater men than you." Fox's remarks in another tweet indicated that President Trump's DACA decision was motivated by him compensating for earlier inability to pass healthcare reforms to replace the Affordable Care Act. Fox then went on to announce a video in which he said that President Trump had "failed America" and that "his program is cruel and heartless, worse than any machine." "You're canceling the future of 800,000 children and young adults."

Fox has gained more than 1 million followers on his Twitter account as he frequently uses Twitter (in English) to respond to President Trump's tweets.

Fox has appeared in a string of comedies denying Donald Trump, including "Vicente Fox is Running for President of the United States" (fake announcing the candidacy) which was announced in September.

Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Aspirations of a Mexican President was published in September 2007. Fox toured several U.S. cities to perform book-signings and interviews with journalists in the United States. During his tour, however, Mexican immigrants protested him of taking steps that compelled them to immigrate and seek jobs in the United States. During interviews, including one with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who questioned him about the widespread illegal immigrant crisis facing Mexicans in the United States, he discussed the issue several times. The interviewer then questioned Fox about allegations surrounding Marta Sahagn's wife, Vicente Fox, during an interview with Telemundo's Rubén Luengas. After Fox explained the situation, he asked the interviewer not to make false allegations and to show what he was saying. "I'm telling you in your face, I'm not a liar," Luengas said. Fox walked out of the studio, calling the interviewer a "liar," "vulgar," and "stupid."

Several readers viewed several excerpts as being highly critical of US President George W. Bush, who was considered by some to be a close friend of many. For example, Fox said that Bush was "the cockiest guy I've ever met in my life" and that he was surprised that Bush had never made it to the White House. Later, in a Larry King interview, Fox said that this was a mistake, and that saying George W. Bush'cocky" meant that he was "confident." In his autobiography, Fox also referred to Bush as a "windshield cowboy" due to Bush's apparent apprehension of a horse Fox allowed him to ride.

Fox announced the construction of a center of research, library, and museum, which had been described as Mexico's first presidential library by the US press on January 12, 2007. The initiative, which will be entirely funded, will be a library, museum, a center for democracy advancement, a research center, and a hotel. It is expected to be a genuine American presidential library. In Fox's hometown town of San Francisco del Rincón, it will be built.

Though museums are abundant throughout the country, there is nothing like a presidential library where personal papers, reports, and gifts amassed by the country's leader are open to the public. For the first time in Mexico's history, Fox's library will be modeled after the Bill Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, which will provide Mexicans with a library in which to access the papers, photos, and documents that made up their six years as president.

According to the official website, the center's construction is ongoing and progressing. By late 2007, the library would have been finished.

At the Fox Center in 2015, Fox was interviewed by Peter High for Forbes, which is also known as "Centro Fox." "We are a Latin American center focusing on concepts, leadership, and strategies," Fox said in an interview. We do it by number one, young children. The middle-class and the rest of the population have access to the finest universities. However, the wider population does not receive any messages or aspirations of happiness in life at home.

In addition to the library's completion, there have been some signals that Centro Fox was working with UST Global to transform Mexico into a world-class technological economy. "UST Global is working with Centro Fox to help achieve nothing less than the transformation of my country's world-class technology economy," Fox said in a press release. ..... . .. "We will have Mexico at the forefront of the information technology revolution in the area," says the region's leader. These campaigns seem to be continuing.

At the Centist Democratic International's co-president, Pierre Ferdinando Casini (along with re-elected Pier Ferdinando Casini) at its leaders' meeting in Rome on September 20. The National Action Party, Fox's affiliate, is a member of the CDI, the international group of political parties, and it is a member of Fox's National Action Party.

An announcement was made in Boca del Ro, Veracruz, that a 3-meter (10 ft) statue of Vicente Fox was to be unveiled in October 2007. The opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution in Boca del Ros mayor, who was allied with the same political party (PAN) as Fox, was aghastened by this.

The statue was unveiled in 2007 amidst of demonstrations on the dawn of 13 October 2007. The inauguration was scheduled to take place on October 14th. A crowd of about 100 people (many of whom were members of the PRI, the political party that Fox had defeated in the 2000 race) sacked the monument, dragging it down and pulling it down, damaging it. The monument was restored to its position for the inauguration but then taken away for repairs.

Members of PAN accuse Veracruz's governor, Fidel Herrera Beltrán, of "ordering the attack on the statue," according to Fox. According to others in the media, the installation of the statue was unnecessary, considering that former President Fox was facing allegations relating to an illicit enrichment controversy at the time.

Vicente Fox and his partner Martha Sahagn were preventively admitted to a hospital in León, Guanajuato, during the pandemic epidemic in Mexico, but without apparent signs.

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Early political career

Vicente Fox, aided by Manuel Clouthier, joined the Partido Acción Nacional on March 1 in 1988. He was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies in León, Guanajuato, the Third Federal District.

Fox ran for governorship in Guanajuato in 1991 after being in the Chamber of Deputies, but the PRI lost the election to Ramón Aguirre Velázquez. Local dissatisfaction was so bad that the state legislature voted Carlos Medina Plascencia of the PAN as interim governor following the election. Fox ran again four years ago, this time winning by a vote of 2 to 1. Fox, as governor, championed government efficiency and transparency. He was one of Mexico's first state governors to give a clear, open, and timely account of his state's finances.

Fox also called for the consolidation of small businesses, promoted overseas sales of Guanajuato-made products, and developed a robust network of small loans to encourage the poor to open a changarro (a small shop) and buy a car and a television. Guanajuato was the fifth most important Mexican state economy under Fox.

Vicente Fox, the opposition party's first majority in the Chamber of Deputies, voted for President of Mexico on July 7, 1997. Despite resistance from within his political party, Fox won his nomination as a representative of the Alliance for Change, a national Action Party and the Green Ecological Party of Mexico's political alliance formed on November 14, 1999.

A presidential debate was organized during his campaign, but the three leading candidates (Fox, Francisco Labastida of the PRI, and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of the PRD) disagreed on the terms. The presidential debate, which was shown on national television, was one of many differences that was not discussed the same day or the following Friday.

Fox's most prominent critic, Francisco Labastida, said Fox had consistently branded him a "sissy" and a "cross-dresser" ("la vestida," a pun on his last name).

Fox's campaign slogans were "¡Ya!"

("Right now!

("We've already won"), "Ya ganamos" ("We've already won"), and "Vote for Alliance for Change" (Vote for Alliance for Change).

Fox also faced some controversy thanks to Amigos de Fox, a nonprofit fundraising group established by Denise Montao, in addition to some controversy. Vicente Fox was elected President of Mexico by virtue of his work, and the term "amigos de Fox" was used as a campaign slogan in the 2000 presidential election to the millions of people who support Fox.

Money laundering charges against Amigos de Fox were launched in 2003, but they were dismissed shortly before the midterm elections in July 2003.

Fox gained 43% (15,989,636 votes) of the popular vote on July 2, 2000, his 58th birthday, followed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) candidate Francisco Labastida with 43% (15,579,718 votes), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) with 17% (6,256,780 votes). Fox gained by the same night, a victory that had been ratified by then-President Zedillo. After the final results were announced, President-elect Fox greeted thousands of followers and celebrated his triumph with them at the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City. Later that night, his rivals resigned, having lost the election.

Fox gained significant media coverage after winning the election, as well as many congratulatory messages and phone calls from world leaders, including then-President Bill Clinton. He took power on December 1, 2000, the first time since 1917 that an opposition candidate had taken power from the long-serving Institutional Revolutionary Party. (PRI)

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