Mexico's Fox breaking tradition in Dallas visit

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico's Fox breaking tradition in Dallas visit
Ex-president seeking support for Mexico's first presidential library

12:52 AM CST on Monday, February 26, 2007
By LAURENCE ILIFF and ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
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MEXICO CITY – No matter what former President Vicente Fox says at Southern Methodist University this Tuesday, his speech is already controversial and represents a radical break with the past.

Vicente Fox By tradition, former Mexican presidents are supposed to quietly fade away, preferably in self-exile far from home. But Mr. Fox refuses to do so, despite critics at home who say that Mexico's powerful six-year presidency is best followed by silence.

"Vicente Fox has to understand that his presidency is over," Green Party leader Jorge Emilio González said recently.

But since leaving office Dec. 1, Mr. Fox has been touring to speak out on topics such as democracy and poverty, like a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
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[Selatius]

1. Vicente Fox is closer to HW Bush or Ronald Reagan, not Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter was a lot of things, but he didn't make promises to the working poor beyond what he was able to deliver. And Vicente Fox' apparent solution to the economic problems was to merely dump the poor onto the US.