Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quezada (born July 2, 1942) is the President of Mexico, the first opposition party candididate to win this office in Mexico in some 90 years.
Fox was born in Mexico City, and grew up on a farm in the state of Guanajuato. His education included the Universidad Iberoamericana[?] and Harvard University.
After graduation he went to work for the Coca Cola Company, starting off as a route supervisor and driving a delivery truck. He rose in the company to become supervisor of Coca Cola's operations in Mexico, and then in all of Latin America.
Fox joined the PAN (National Action Party) party in the 1980s, and in 1988 was elected to congress representing León, Guanajuato. He ran for governor of Guanajuato in 1991, and many think he got the most votes, but the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) candidate was declared the winner in what a number of observers considered a dishonest fix by the PRI. In 1995 he won the governorship of his state by a wide margin and took office. His term as governorship was noted for honesty and transparency of government, and the economy of Guanajuato flourished. Fox was nominated as the PAN party's Presidential candidate for 2000.
Fox was was elected President for the constitutional period 2000 - 2006. His PRI Party promotes greater free market for the economy and conservative values and policies. He is the first Mexican president since the revolution who was not supported by the PRI.
His election was historically significant because he is the first President elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910.
History
- 23 to 26 January 2003 : visit to Davos, Switzerland
- 26 to 28 January 2003 : visit in Netherlands, he will meet Jan Peter Balkenende, freshly elected Prime minister and queen Beatrix.
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Placerville), September 10th, 1849. This was where I did my first
condition caused by my having the so-called "land scurvy," brought on
remained for a week or two and then left and went to Grass Valley. There
loads of goods, went back to Grass Valley and started a hotel, ran it a
and from Sacramento to Beal's Bar on the North Fork of the American
gained my strength so that I was more like myself, and I bought a
fairly go/good.html">good luck until spring. By this time I had laid by a few hundred
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the river were rich and everything went to show that the bed of the
harvest of gold. The first thing we did was to build a dam, and dig a
and rain came on in the mountains, raised the water in the river and
season.
Now you see the hopes and disappointments of the miner. While we were at
our way. We had a blacksmith to sharpen the picks and drills who had a
ready to blast the rock we gave him timely warning, he paid no heed, the
went directly for his forge and within about six inches of his legs and
the boys in the canal "I surrender."
About this time the river had risen to such an extent that it was
a dividing of the roads, and each member had to look out for himself. I
a shaft through the lava.html">lava to bedrock. The lava on the surface is very
with my pick and not making much headway, there came along a Mr.
minute and then said, "Young man.html">man, how deep do you expect to go before
- you have got more pluck than any man I ever saw." He went on and.
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