Vicente Fox, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vicente Fox

President of Mexico

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Le贸n, Guanajuato, Mexico

Profession: businessperson, politician, economist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Vicente Fox

  • Vicente Fox Quesada (American Spanish: [bi'sente 'foks ke'sa冒a]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 55th President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. Campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox ran for and was elected President on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket, which was an opposition party at the time of his election as president.
  • He is currently the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of center-right political parties.Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election since it made him the first president elected from an opposition party since the election of Francisco I.
  • Madero in 1910.
  • Fox finished in first place with 42 percent of the vote, thus becoming the first presidential candidate in 71 years to defeat the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).As president, he mostly followed the neoliberal economic policies that his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the late 1980s.
  • The first half of his administration saw a further shift of the Federal government to the right, strong relations with the United States and George W.
  • Bush, unsuccessful attempts to apply a value-added tax to medicines and to build an airport in Texcoco, and a major diplomatic conflict with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
  • The murder of human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa in 2001 called into question the Fox administration's commitment to breaking with the authoritarian past of the PRI era. The second half of his administration was marked by his conflict with Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador, then Mexico City's Mayor.
  • The PAN and the Fox administration unsuccessfully attempted to remove L贸pez Obrador from office and to prevent him from participating in the 2006 presidential elections.
  • The Fox administration also became embroiled with diplomatic conflicts with Venezuela and Bolivia after supporting the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which was opposed by those two countries.
  • His last year in office oversaw the controversial 2006 elections, where the PAN candidate Felipe Calder贸n was declared winner by a very narrow margin over his opponent L贸pez Obrador, who claimed that the elections were rigged and refused to recognize the results, calling for protests across the country.
  • In the same year, the southern state of Oaxaca was the scene of a teacher's strike which culminated into protests and violent clashes asking for the resignation of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.On the other hand, Fox was credited with maintaining economic growth during his administration, and reducing the poverty rate from 43.7% in 2000 to 35.6% in 2006.After serving as president of Mexico for six years, Fox returned to his home state of Guanajuato, where he now resides with his wife and family.
  • Since leaving the presidency, Fox has been involved in public speaking and the development of the Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum.In 2013, Fox eventually decided to leave the National Action Party, after endorsing the PRI presidential candidate, Enrique Pe帽a Nieto, the previous year.
  • He again endorsed the PRI's candidate, Jos茅 Antonio Meade, in 2018.In 2018, Fox joined the High Times board of directors.

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