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  Vicente Fox (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fox was born in Mexico City to a wealthy Mexican -(Spanish-Irish) family (his father was of Irish descent and His mother from the Spanish province of Asturias) of Guanajuato.
In 1988, Fox was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Congress) representing León, Guanajuato.
Vicente Fox with Marta Sahagún, Laura Bush, and George W. Bush Most analysts consider Fox's term will be remembered for being the first of an opposition party in modern times and for following the steps of previous governments (most notably previous president Zedillo) but doing little of its own.
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 Vicente Fox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City on July 2, 1942, the second of nine children in his family.
Vicente Fox had several controversies with Latin American countries such as with president of Argentina, Néstor Kirchner related to the FTAA during the 2005 Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas, with the president of Chile regarding the new OAS Secretary General election, 2005
Fox's plan for the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, CONACYT, was that by 2006 this organism would receive 1% of the GDP, however the budget for this organism for FY 2006 was 0.33% of the GDP.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vicente_Fox_Quesada   (1770 words)

  
 Biography of Vicente Fox
Vicente is a pleasant, respectful, simple and honest person who, due to his experience of life on the ranch, has learned to value the loyalty of everyday people, and to appreciate Mexico's enormous potential to become one of the world's leading nations.
Vicente Fox has shared the happiness of his home and work with his four children, Ana Cristina, Vicente, Paulina and Rodrigo, all of whom were adopted.
Vicente Fox was one of the first state governors to give a clear, public and timely account of the finances of Guanajuato state and of his personal patrimony.
www.un.int /mexico/biography_fox.htm   (1055 words)

  
 Mexico: Government. Our President Vicente Fox.
In Guanajuato, Vicente Fox has participated enthusiastically as a business leader and politician, and in social and educational issues, such as in the case of the Amigo Daniel Orphanage Foundation, in which the whole Fox family is active.
In 1995, Vicente Fox participated in the extraordinary election for governor and was elected by a considerable majority.
Vicente Fox won the elections staged on July 2nd to become the first opposition party candidate to reach the Presidency of the Republic.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/government/html/gobierno/bio_foxkids.html   (579 words)

  
 Fox Quesada, Vicente - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
FOX QUESADA, VICENTE [Fox Quesada, Vicente] 1942-, Mexican political leader, president of Mexico (2000-).
Profile of President Fox On Dec. 1 2000, Vicente Fox Quesada became the Constitutional President of the United Mexican States.
Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada answers questions during an interview with the Dallas Morning News at Los Pinos, their White House, on Tuesday, July 15, 2003.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-foxq1v1.html   (602 words)

  
 Fox Quesada Vicente - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Fox Quesada, Vicente (1942- ), President of Mexico (2000- ), who made political history when he defeated the presidential candidate of the PRI...
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 President of United Mexican States
On December 1st 2000, Vicente Fox Quesada was sworn in as the Constitutional President of the United Mexican States.
Originally from Mexico City, Vicente Fox was born on July 2nd, 1942, the second of nine children born to José Luis Fox, a farmer, and Mercedes Quesada.
Vicente Fox has four children, Ana Cristina, Vicente, Paulina and Rodrigo, all of whom were adopted.
www.mexican-embassy.org.yu /President.html   (508 words)

  
 Mexico Elections - Vicente Fox Claims Victory
Vicente Fox Quesada has given his victory speech based on two sets of exits polls which give Fox a comfortable lead.
Vicente Fox: A NewsHour Interview - The PAN presidential candidate discusses why he thinks Mexico's ruling party's leadership should end.
Fox Burned His Own Brand on Campaign Trail - President-elect Vicente Fox turned Mexican history upside-down by mixing a rancher's tenacity with innovative political marketing honed during his years as a Coca-Cola executive.
www.lasculturas.com /aa/aa070200a.htm   (945 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Vicente Fox -- March 21, 2000
Fox and his conservative, business-oriented followers in PAN hope Cardenas drops out of the race, or that somehow the two parties can make common cause with Cardenas' leftist backers to avoid splitting the opposition.
VICENTE FOX: Well, up to now, we've been playing a game that is more of a theater play than actual programs to stop the growing and expansion of drug trafficking.
VICENTE FOX: Well, what we would do is start to work in Mexico to have opportunities for everybody to have those jobs.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/jan-june00/fox_3-21.html   (1724 words)

  
 TIME Pacific | Vicente Fox Quesada | December 25, 2000 | NO. 51
But the main focus for those frustrations, and the aspirations behind them, was in Mexico City, where on July 2 a former Coca-Cola executive and state governor, Vicente Fox Quesada, 58, overthrew the oldest political organization in the hemisphere, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (pri), to inaugurate an era of openness, change-and uncertainty.
Fox's election as Mexico's 62nd President marked the first peaceful handover of power to the political opposition in 179 years since independence and the end of 71 years of pri rule.
The true test of Fox, the Coca-Cola Revolutionary, will be his ability to convince Mexicans, with all their diversity and conflicting interests, to follow his banner.
www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20001225/poy_fox.html   (511 words)

  
 Mexico - Mexican Presidency | Vicente Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City, July 2, 1942.
He made Guanajuato the fifth largest economy in Mexico and in light of the excellent results of his government, was chosen by the Alliance for Change (PAN-PVEM) as its candidate to the presidency of Mexico in the elections to be held in the year 2000.
A year after his victory in the presidential elections, July 2, 2001 the official residence of Los Pinos was the setting for an historic event: the civil marriage of Vicente Fox Quesada, president of the United Mexican States, to Mrs.
www.presidencia.gob.mx /en/vicentefox/?contenido=17322   (803 words)

  
 A Conversation with Vicente Fox Quesada [Rush transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.] - Council on Foreign Relations
FOX: It would look like the private sector pension plan, which is a self-sufficient pension plan that people saves throughout their life of work, in an environment of stability and discipline where money does not erode—loses its purchasing power; on the contrary, that that saving becomes more and more throughout the year.
FOX: No, absolutely not because our position in September 11 was of profound sorrow, profound solidarity with U.S. families and with United States as a nation, profound belief that democracies—those of us who believe in democracy, we should get together and fight terrorism with all what we have.
FOX: Yeah, in the past, there was always this struggling between IMF and Mexico in relation to debt, and it was because of what I mentioned: there was such a big disorder, indiscipline in the running of the budget.
www.cfr.org /publication/8884/conversation_with_vicente_fox_quesada_rush_transcript_federal_news_service_inc.html   (6614 words)

  
 The GULLY | Mexico | Vicente Fox's Honeymoon
Fox has already done a great service to Mexico: his election ended the corrupt, single-party monopoly by the PRI.
Fox has already done a great service to Mexico: his election ended the corrupt, single-party monopoly by the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), which controlled the country for the past 71 years.
While Fox has said, repeatedly, that he will respect the separation between church and state which is at the heart of the Mexican republic, a few hours before his inauguration, on December 1, he called in the media for a photo op featuring himself publicly praying and taking communion.
www.thegully.com /essays/mex/001204fox_inaug.html   (479 words)

  
 Biography of Vicente Fox (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vicente Fox studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana; he recalls his provincial, "ranch-style" appearance and how it contrasted with that of his classmates.
Vicente Fox also believes that he has also used his professional development as an opportunity to serve the Mexican people by creating jobs.
I, Vicente Fox, give my word as a free and honest Mexican, I give my word to the nation and to history that I will do everything in my power to achieve a better future, without limits or reluctance, and with true love and passion".
www.un.int.cob-web.org:8888 /mexico/biography_fox.htm   (1055 words)

  
 Vicente Fox Dreams, Challenges and Threats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fox's views on several key questions illustrate this rapprochement, which is the product of his own experience in government, of his participation in a series of international seminars and discussions, and his budding friendship with exceptional Latin American thinkers, such as Brazilian Harvard Law Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger.
Fox's PAN associates are traditional anti-tax, anti-spend conservatives; they subscribe in many cases to a traditional, supply-side vision of macro-economic theory whereby lowering taxes is the beginning and end of economic policy.
Finally, as Vicente himself points out in this volume in the comments he made upon his return from Chile in 1997, Mexico requires a vast alliance to defeat the PRI in the upcoming presidential elections of the year 2000 and to lead Mexico into the twenty first century with a broad and powerful mandate.
www.vicentefox.org.mx /vicente_fox/libros/dreams-english.htm   (14551 words)

  
 México - Presidencia de la República   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
President Vicente Fox said that Mexico must continue its fiscal, monetary and budgetary discipline, stay the course and maintain discipline in the implementation of its public policies, since nothing would be more detrimental to the country’s success than trying different methods and returning to corruption, populism and demagogy.
President Vicente Fox Quesada received a courtesy visit from the ministers and presidents of the sub-commissions that convened during the 7th Meeting of the Bi-national Mexico-Spain Commission held in Mexico City on July 13 and 14 2005.
President Vicente Fox Quesada told an audience of over 200 Russian and Mexican businessmen that this is an ideal moment for foreign investment in Mexico, since it offers competitive advantages and a stable trade balance which has created favorable expectations for all those wishing to engage in trade with this country.
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 México: Gobierno. Biografia del Presidente Vicente Fox.
Vicente Fox Quesada nació en la ciudad de México el 2 de julio de 1942.
Vicente Fox ganó las elecciones del 2 de julio y se convierte en el primer candidato de un partido de oposición que llega a la Presidencia de la República.
Vicente Fox Quesada contrajo nupcias con la señora Marta Sahagún Jiménez el 2 de julio de 2001.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /gobierno/html/gobierno/bio_fox.html   (664 words)

  
 Vicente Fox - Biography of Vicente Fox
Looking back, Vicente Fox remembers how his provincial appearance, "like a ranchhand", contrasted with that of his classmates.
Whether as a businessman or politician, Vicente Fox Quesada has always done everything he can to improve the common good and ensure equal opportunities.
In 1995, he stood again, this time in the extraordinary elections for governor, and won by a significant majority.
www.gobierno.com.mx /english/vicente-fox.php   (834 words)

  
 Vicente Fox Quesada, — Infoplease.com
Fox, a candidate of the conservative National Action Party, is a former Coca-Cola executive who was elected governor of Guanajuato in 1995.
When Fox takes office on Dec. 1, it will be the first democratic transition of power in Mexico's history.
Vicente Fox Quesada - Fox Quesada, Vicente, 1942–, Mexican political leader, president of Mexico (2000–).
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0873091.html   (304 words)

  
 ONLINE ORIGINAL: Vicente Fox on the Transition, NAFTA, Corruption, Drugs, the Economy...
Vicente Fox on the Transition, NAFTA, Corruption, Drugs, the Economy...
Two days after his stunning election victory ended 71 years of unbroken rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's President-elect Vicente Fox Quesada gave a two-hour press conference for foreign reporters.
Looking relaxed and confident, Fox took questions on everything from what he had dreamed the night before the election (he didn't say) to state tax revenue allocation (states should get more).
www.businessweek.com /2000/00_29/b3690043.htm   (2335 words)

  
 Vicente Fox - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Vicente Fox - Search Results - MSN Encarta
In 1999, in an attempt to make the PRI more democratic and thus revive the party’s political fortunes, President Zedillo relinquished his right to...
PAN (Mexican party) : election of Vicente Fox as president of Mexico
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 Vicente Fox Quesada — Infoplease.com
Vicente Fox Quesada, - Vicente Fox Quesada, Mexican politician, was elected president in July, ending 71 years of rule by...
Quienes son los "Amigos de Fox": en visperas del nuevo siglo, este grupo influyo mas que nadie para cambiar el derrotero politico......
PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX RECEIVES MIXED GRADES FOR PERFORMANCE IN FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0907188.html   (539 words)

  
 Editorial | hippity-hop | Magazine
When the Hippity-Hop newsdesk received the wire report of Vicente Fox Quesada's victory in Mexico's presidential election (thereby ending the 71-year rule by the corrupt IRP), a mood of hopeful celebration swept our office.
There was talk of what effect his presidency would have on the price of Corona and inferior leather goods, the availability of impotent marijuana, and the renewed possibility of mandatory jail terms for young obnoxious gringos on spring break.
But, our initial glee was quickly replaced by concern over Fox Quesada's uncanny resemblance to the legendary Mexican ranchera crooner, Vicente Fernandez.
adanonline.jazzatdetour.com /hippityhop/editorial/vicente.html   (181 words)

  
 Carta al Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada
Durante su campaña y desde el 2 de julio, usted, señor Fox, ha dicho una y otra vez que va a elegir el diálogo para enfrentar nuestras demandas.
Señor Fox: A diferencia de su antecesor Zedillo (quien llegó al poder por la vía del magnicidio y con el apoyo de ese monstruo corrupto que es el sistema de partido de Estado), usted llega al Ejecutivo federal gracias al repudio que el PRI cultivó con esmero entre la población.
Señor Fox: durante más de seis años su antecesor, Zedillo, fingió voluntad de diálogo y nos hizo la guerra.
www.ezln.org /documentos/2000/20001202b.es.htm   (1531 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Vicente Fox Quesada 1942–;, Mexican political leader, president of Mexico (2000–;).
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Vicente Fox Quesada
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 Vicente Fox Quesada
Fox Urged to Uphold Pledge on Justice Reforms
Fox's first year is marred by a political identity crisis
Fox's Marriage Is a Major Personal and Political Step
www.latinamericanstudies.org /mexico-fox.htm   (193 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Mexico's President expects Russia to promote Iraq's sovereignty
Mexico's President Vicente Fox Quesada is to offer Russia to join the recently formed group, which comes out for Iraq's democratic and sovereign development.
In addition, Vicente Fox Quesada pointed out hi-tech, education and culture as promising spheres of Russian-Mexican cooperation.
Moreover, the Mexican government is to discuss with the Russian side the construction of a major helicopter service center in Veracruz on the basis of the existing enterprise, which was built by Russian companies.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/06/07/54312.html   (1817 words)

  
 His Excellency Vicente Fox Quesada, President of Mexico visits Oakland University - Kresge Library - Oakland University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Oakland University is proud to welcome and hear a special address from His Excellency Vicente Fox Quesada, President of Mexico on Friday, June 18, 2004 at the OU Recreation and Athletics Center (campus map).
Recent profile of President Fox by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (March 27, 2004)
Shirk, David A. Vicente Fox and the Rise of the PAN.
www.kl.oakland.edu /services/events/etc/presidentFox.htm   (325 words)

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