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Revolution of Hope

Monday, October 08, 2007

When Vicente Fox swept into office in 2000, he broke the dictatorial one-party rule that had strangled Mexico for over seventy years. As president, he steered the country's fragile young democracy through tough times, fighting corruption and ushering in six years of economic stability and reform in health care, education, and housing. In Revolution of Hope, President Fox reveals how he did it, and speaks for the first time on his close but rocky relationships with world leaders from George W. Bush and Tony Blair to Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and Hugo Chávez.

Vicente Fox says he reveals info about his personal finances at centrofox.org.mx

Purchase Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President at amazon.com.

Vicente Fox will be speaking and signing copies of his book
Tuesday, October 9th at 7:30 pm
Union Square Barnes & Noble


Comments

  • [1] LL from Queens, NY October 08, 2007 - 10:39AM

    Brian,

    I hope you ask President Fox regarding 2 topics:

    (1) Drug Cartels and Organized Crime in General - How he allowed the Drug Carterls to consolidate their control of most local and state governments of the northern and Pacific bordering states?

    (2) Migration to the US - It seems that Mr. Fox's only policy to address the rapid migration of mexicans to the US by lobbying the US government to accept all immigrants on the grounds that these people are entitled to jobs. I know that the problems that have accelerated migration from towns and farms in Mexico began with his 2 prior predecesors with Nafta and the accompanying land ownership changes designed to push farmers from their communities in order to provide cheap labor to the Maquiladoras. Why didn't he implement laws and reforms to prevent the dumping of agricultural products by US corporations the same way the US does to protect sugar cane and grain producers? - If he had made an attempt to work with NGOs and Indian communities he could have helped to slow down the exodus of hungry farmers to the border shantytowns and US farms.


  • [2] LL from Queens, NY October 08, 2007 - 11:13AM

    Sorry. Leonard. Meant you. NOT Brian!
  • [3] hnr from "Prospect Heights" October 08, 2007 - 11:44AM

    Leonard,

    Could you ask Mr. Fox about his acquisitions of beaches in the coast of Michoacan. They were totally illegal!

    Why did Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman escape during his presidency? In journalism and small villages, their relationship is word of mouth. It is well documented in the press. He escaped the day an attorney was on his way to move him to another high security jail. Right know the congress is investigating illegal enrichment! Please! Thank you.
  • [4] AWM from UWS October 08, 2007 - 11:59AM

    What about his stupid comment about mexican immigrants doing the jobs in the US that "black people" won't do? He should be a little more knowledgable about the societal dynamics of country that neighbors his.

    Coming from a leader of a country that remains, in spite of his efforts, a social, political and economic mess his comments reak of a rich, out of touch, wanna-be elitist.


  • [5] Charles from Harlem October 08, 2007 - 12:13PM

    Many Black Americans emigrated to Mexico escaping slavery and the brutal racial terrorism of the United States in the 19th & 20th centuries.

    Langston Hughes' father left Kansas and became an executive for that Mexican National Railway, for example.

    (source: A. Rampersad: Langston Hughes, A Biography)
  • [6] Michael from Park Slope October 08, 2007 - 12:24PM

    As a businessman, Fox knows that the real solution to the Mexican emigration/US immigration problem is development in Mexico.

    The premise of NAFTA, a political problem for the USA more than for Mexico, was that Mexico would pursue growth policies, such as streamlining PEMEX, making the economy more business/investment-friendly, and breaking the power of the monopoly capitalists (several billionaires) whose grip on telecom, media, cement, and other sectors thwarts growth. Lobbying the US to lighten up on illegal immigration is not a real, winning strategy for the long term.
  • [7] LL from Queens, NY October 08, 2007 - 12:26PM

    Interesting Charles. - Didn't know of blacks migrating to Mexico.

    I know that Mexicans claim a lot of ignorance of blacks - Their only concept of blacks are stereotypes they have of Cubans

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