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Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party si…
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Born 2 July 1942 · Q190572
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s best interests at heart. On Wednesday, the Mexican foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, acknowledged that American officials had asked Mexico to avoid a meeting between Mr Castro and Mr Bush. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service Top Americas stories now: Bush vows action after scandals
[w]e are a Latin American center that is geared around ideas, leadership, and strategies. We do it through, number one, young kids. The middle-upper class and the rest have access to the best universities. But the broader constituency does not receive any messages or aspirations of happiness in life at home.
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“s best interests at heart. On Wednesday, the Mexican foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, acknowledged that American officials had asked Mexico to avoid a meeting between Mr Castro and Mr Bush. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service Top Americas stories now: Bush vows action after scandals”
“[w]e are a Latin American center that is geared around ideas, leadership, and strategies. We do it through, number one, young kids. The middle-upper class and the rest have access to the best universities. But the broader constituency does not receive any messages or aspirations of happiness in life at home.”
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“UST Global is partnering Centro Fox to help accomplish nothing less than the transformation of my country into a world-class technology economy . . . . Together, we will establish Mexico at the forefront of the information technology revolution in the region.”
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“I find quite sad that America, formerly the most open and cutting edge nation, has chosen to lock itself down inside concrete walls. It”
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“the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life,”
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“s victory and explored what Mexico could do in response.”
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“There is no reason to hold to the anti-democratic rules of those who still live in the authoritarian past . . . now that Mexico is a democracy, every citizen has the right to express himself, even a former president.”
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“Ya hoy hablo libre, ya digo cualquier tontería, ya no importa, ya total, yo ya me voy”
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EL PAÍS English: Vicente Fox: ‘People need to be given training, not money so they can just lie around’
sdpnoticias: Vicente Fox culpa a empresarios de frenarlo para subir el salario mínimo
El Financiero: Vicente Fox sale en defensa del exgobernador de Baja California: ‘Se pretende silenciar a un hombre honesto’
sdpnoticias: Vicente Fox, el grotesco y los camaleones
La Jornada: Vicente Fox y ex gobernadores panistas defienden a Ruffo Appel y acusan "persecución política"
Debate: Vicente Fox reaparece para lanzar inusual mensaje sobre Ernesto Ruffo | VIDEO
Periódico Zócalo: Vicente Fox respalda a Ernesto Ruffo Appel y denuncia ‘saña política’ en su detención
Infobae: Vicente Fox muestra su solidaridad con Ernesto Ruffo y pone en duda la imparcialidad de la justicia
Yahoo Noticias en Español: ¿Vicente Fox pidió a Sheinbaum que le devuelva su pensión de expresidente? Falso, es un video manipulado
Yahoo Noticias en Español: Vicente Fox, el lastre de la oposición de México que no podía caer más bajo. Y lo hizo
On 7 August 2021, it was reported and confirmed that Vicente Fox and his wife Martha Sahagún were preventively admitted to a hospital in León, Guanajuato after being infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic in Mexico, but without serious symptoms.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
Over concerns surrounding the company's stock offering
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Published “Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission” in The Lancet — cited 9,280 times.
Published “Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems” in The Lancet — cited 9,208 times.
Fox joined the High Times board of directors
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
Fox co-signed a letter to Ban Ki-moon calling for a more humane drug policy
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Fox was interviewed by Peter High for Forbes at the library, which is called "Centro Fox" (the Fox Center)
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“s The Globe and Mail in which he stated that,”
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Fox discussed why the West has pursued a moral crusade against drugs at HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye
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After having endorsed the PRI presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, in the 2012 elections
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Published “Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,611 times.
By BGC-Excelsior regarding former presidents, 32% of the respondents considered that the Fox administration was "very good" or "good", 25% responded that it was an "average" administration, and 42% responded that it was
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Published “The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease” in Alzheimer's & Dementia — cited 9,184 times.
Published “Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 7,948 times.
Won Giuseppe Motta Medal (2007).
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His public image had become exhausted by the controversial presidential elections of that year and the few reforms implemented
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Fox decided to cancel the parade commemorating the 96th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution which was scheduled to take place on 20 November, arguing it was an obsolete celebration that nobody wanted to participate in
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After Bolivian President Evo Morales refused to sell natural gas, Fox said, "Well, they'll either have to consume it all themselves or they're going to have to eat it
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Unless he was either quickly acquitted of all charges or managed to serve his sentence before the electoral registration deadline)
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Published “The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 7,671 times.
Money-laundering charges were lodged against Amigos de Fox, but were dropped shortly before the July 2003 midterm elections
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2002).
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(one year into his administration) that he much preferred his experience as candidate than actually being president
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Called into question the Fox administration's commitment to breaking with the authoritarian past of the PRI era
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Career landmark: President of Mexico (2000–2006).
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Published “A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 11,864 times.
Career landmark: Governor of Guanajuato (1995–1999).
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After serving in the Chamber of Deputies, Fox sought the governorship in Guanajuato, but lost the disputed election to Ramón Aguirre Velázquez of the PRI
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After 20 years of marriage, Lilian filed for and was granted a divorce
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Career landmark: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico (1988–1991).
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Fox received a certificate in management skills from Harvard Business School
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In 1969, Fox married Lilian de la Concha, a receptionist at Coca-Cola.
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Fox married Lilian de la Concha, a receptionist at Coca-Cola
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Fox was hired by the Coca-Cola Company as a route supervisor and drove a delivery truck
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Born 1942-07-02.
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Attended Woodward High School and moved to Mexico at age 32
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