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Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada
Vicente Fox is a former President of Mexico (2000 to 2006). After 71 years of national governments of the same party, Fox was the first president from the opposition. His victory marked a before-and-after in Mexico’s democratic and institutional life.
Vicente Fox education
A businessman, President Fox was born in Mexico City on July 2, 1942. He graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (1964) and obtained a diploma in Top Management Skills from the Business School of Harvard University (1974). In 1964 Mr. Fox began working as a route supervisor for the Coca-Cola Company. His career with the company developed very rapidly and from 1975-1979 he was serving as Chief Executive of Coca-Cola in Mexico.
After retiring from Coca-Cola in 1980, President Fox returned to Guanajuato to help run the family business. Being actively involved in civil society, Vicente Fox was President and Founder of Casa Cuna Amigo Daniel Board, an institution where many children receive care a
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Vicente Fox
Former president of Mexico
Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City, July 2, 1942.
He is the second of nine children born to farmer Jose Luis Fox, now deceased, and Mercedes Quesada.
As a child, together with his family he moved to the San Cristobal ranch in the municipality of San Francisco del Rincon, in the state of Guanajuato, where he would play with the children of the communal land owners, share with them their childhood and, in his own words, "see close up one of the evils that unnecessarily afflicted our country: poverty".
Vicente Fox is friendly, respectful, straightforward, and honest. Life on the farm taught him to value the loyalty of people and appreciate Mexico's enormous potential to become in every way a successful nation.
"I know the importance of opportunity -he says firmly-. I grew up on the land with the children of peasants and the only thing that sets me apart from my childhood friends are the opportunities I had and they did not".
He studied Business Administration at the Mexico City campus of the Ibero-American University. Looking back, Vicen
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Vicente Fox is a Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 2000-06 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organisation of Christian democratic political parties.
When elected to the presidency of Mexico in 2000, Vicente Fox broke the stranglehold that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party had held on the State for seven decades. A charismatic reformer, President Fox is credited with playing a vital role in Mexico’s democratisation, and with strengthening the country’s economy. During his tenure, he succeeded in controlling inflation and interest rates, and in achieving the lowest unemployment rate in all of Latin America.
In his book, Revolution of Hope, Fox outlines a new vision of hope for the future of the Americas. He speaks out forcefully on hot global topics like immigration, the war in Iraq, racism, globalisation, the role of the United Nations, free trade, religion, gender equity, indigenous rights and the moral imperative to health global divide between rich and poor n
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