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| 72nd President of Mexico | |
| In office December 1, 2000 – December 1, 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León |
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| Born | July 2, 1942 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | National Action Party |
| Spouse | Marta Sahagun |
Vicente Fox Quesada (born July 2, 1942) is the current President of Mexico. He was elected in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco Madero in 1910. His current term runs through 2006.
Presidential candidacy
Presidency
Relations with Congress
In the last annual state of the union in 2006, President Fox was prevented by PRD opposition lawmakers from delivering his speech. He, instead, gave a televised address to the nation. PRD lawmakers did this as a protest against the result of the 2006 election, and as a protest for the Federal Police protecting the Legislative Palace. However, the decision from sending the police to defend the Palace was done after threats by the PRD of inciting violence inside congress.
Relations with Latin American countries
Vicente Fox had several controversies with Latin American countries such as with president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner related the FTAA during the 2005 Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas, with president of Chile regarding the new OAS Secretary General election, 2005 and president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez about his theoretical support for the U.S. president George W. Bush.
The presidential couple
Economy
This slower pace of growth is criticized by opponents, particularly from the left, who argue that it has produced a loss of jobs (180,000 jobs lost from 2000 to 2005) .
His inflation control has also been praised. President Fox has delivered the lowest, single digit, inflation in decades. In the 1980s, Mexico had suffered of hyperinflation, and since 1993 the inflation rate had usually been double-digit, but since Fox the inflation has been of 4% in average. This has been achieved through control in government spending and a contractionary policy that is heavily critiziced. However, it has created a stability in prices and investor confidence that has resulted in record-highs in the Mexican Stock Exchange . Further, this inflationary policy has produced the lowest interests rates for credit in decades, and the construction industry has benefited from the largest housing program in history, resulting in a sprawl of new homes nationwide.
Because of the stability that his inflation policy provides, President Fox has, incorrectly, called his economic policy "growth with stability". This was a policy of Mexican presidents between 1958 and 1970 where they achieved economic growth of approximately 6% . However, such policies included a strong control of the exchange rate through direct government intervention, internal market orientation (instead of open market globalization), and heavy investment in government owned companies. Because of this, Fox's economic policies do not qualify as "growth with stability". Poverty has decreased dramatically during President Vicente Fox's government. Income has grown from 2000 to 2006 an average 26% . However, lower incomes have grown much more than higher incomes, and so critics point to the middle class to deny any reduction in poverty.
Foreign Policy
Before Vicente Fox, Mexico had a Foreign Policy "doctrine" known as the Doctrina Estrada (Estrada Doctrine, so named after its creator, Genaro Estrada). The Doctrina Estrada was a foreign policy directorate that favored an enclosed view of sovereignty. It claimed that foreign governments should not judge, for good or bad, governments or changes in governments in other nations, because it would imply a breach to its sovereignty.
President Fox appointed intellectual Jorge Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Castañeda immediately broke with the Estrada Doctrine, promoting what was called by critics the "Castañeda Doctrine".
Law enforcement
In 2006 Mexico's government attempted to find a way to decriminalize possession of small quantities of illicit drugs, including crack cocaine, heroin, and meth, while stiffening penalties for dealing. The president's spokesman said that the law "allows better action and better coordination in the fight against drug dealing." However, Fox sent the legislation back, asking that the decriminalization be removed.
Employment
Before his election as president, Fox's campaign promised to provide every Mexican a job in Mexico. In practice Fox has relied highly on a border migration policy with the USA as a way to provide Mexican workers with the means of survival. The border migration policy has become the centerpiece of bilateral relations with the USA and a priority for the government of Mexico. Fox is an enthusiastic advocate for opening the border to permit free flow of people between both countries. His most recent request to the US was the creation of a Guest Worker Plan that according to Fox would provide increased security to the USA "The best thing that can happen to both our countries is to have an orderly flow, a controlled flow, of migration to the United States.
Notes
- See Iberian naming customs for an explanation on the use of his name
- http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/01/mexico.protest.ap/index.html
- http://estadis.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/129217.html
See also
| Preceded byErnesto Zedillo Ponce de León | President of Mexico 2000–present |
Succeeded byIncumbent |
| Preceded byCarlos Medina Plascencia (interim) | Governor of Guanajuato 1995–2000 |
Succeeded byRamón Martín Huerta (substitute) |
| Preceded byDiego Fernández de Cevallos | PAN presidential candidate 2000 (won) |
Succeeded byFelipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa |
External links
- Template:Es icon Personal site
- Template:Es icon Office of the President of Mexico site
- Template:En icon CNN: Mexican leader criticized for comment on blacks
- Presidents of Mexico
- Mexican presidential candidates (2000)
- Current national leaders
- Governors of Guanajuato
- Members of the National Action Party (Mexico)
- Mexican federal deputies
- Ibero-American University alumni
- People from Mexico City
- Roman Catholic politicians
- Irish Mexicans
- Spanish Mexicans
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Pro-life politicians
- Same-sex marriage opposition