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Biography of Vicente Fox
Name: Vicente Fox
Birth Date: July 2, 1942
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: president, politician, businessman
Vicente Fox
On July 2, 2000 the world's attention was fixed on Mexico when Vicente Fox (born 1942) pulled off the seemingly impossible feat of winning the country's presidency and toppling the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after more than 70 years in power.Ironically, the day Fox (full name: Vicente Fox Quesada) won the election happened to be his birthday. He was born July 2, 1942 in Mexico City but was raised on a communal farm in the state of Guanajuato near Leon. His father was a rancher of Irish descent and his mother came from Spain. Fox also spent time in the United States, first in Wisconsin where he attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, for one year; then at Harvard University.In 1964 he was hired by the Coca-Cola Company, after studying business management at Mexico City's Iberoamerican University. Ten years later he was named president of Coca-Cola of Mexico. In 1979 the company sought to …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…threatened civil action in the form of PAN-sponsored protests if the election were to prove fraudulent--initially citing a less than ten percent margin of victory as the benchmark, though he later amended that figure in a Newsweek interview.Less than two weeks before the election, Fox was accused of accepting illegal campaign funds from corporations in Belgium and the U.S. The accusations proved untrue and Fox filed a defamation lawsuit, though for a few days he was sidetracked in a struggle to clear his name. In the end Fox was the people's choice, winning 42.5 percent of the vote as opposed to Labastida's 36.1 percent, according to Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute. Further Reading Financial Times, January 28, 1998.Guardian, May 30, 1995.Houston Chronicle, September 4, 1993; July 3, 2000.Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1991; September 3, 1994; April 9, 2000; May 9, 2000; July 8, 2000.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 10, 2000.Newsweek, June 26, 2000.New York Times, May 27, 2000; June 29, 2000; July 4, 2000.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 9, 1995.San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28, 2000.
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