See Also: Fox, Vicente Quesada(encyclopedia)
Jimenez de Quesada, Gonzalo(encyclopedia)
Sao Vicente(tourism)
Vicente, Gil(encyclopedia)
San Vicente(tourism)
Vicente Lopez(tourism)
Sao Vicente airports(tourism)
Sao Vicente car rental(tourism)
Sao Vicente flights(tourism)
Sao Vicente hotels(tourism)

Fox, Vicente Quesada (sh)




born July 2, 1942, Mexico City, Mex.

President of Mexico (2000- ) whose election ended 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

After earning a degree in business administration from the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, Fox took classes at Harvard Business School. He later worked for the Coca-Cola Company, serving as its chief executive in Mexico (1975-79). In 1987 he joined the National Action Party (PAN) and the following year was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies. Elected governor of Guanajuato in 1995, he left the post in 1998 to focus on his national campaign. As president he sought to improve relations with the United States and calm civil unrest in such areas as Chiapas and Tabasco.