Governor and President Vicente Fox Quesada

In 1982, Fox, who became increasingly interested in politics, joined the National Action Party, the largest opposition party in Mexico, and began to enter politics. In July 1988, he was elected as a Mexican federal congressman. In 1995, he was elected governor of Guanajuato state. Fox made outstanding political achievements during his tenure as governor of Guanajuato. He works hard and is sincere and confident. He focused on developing private, foreign-invested and small enterprises, promoting foreign trade, and attaching importance to the development of education. In just a few years, Guanajuato became one of the states with the fastest economic development and the lowest unemployment rate in Mexico, and made it the fifth-largest state in Mexico. large economic zone. He resigned as governor in 1999 and ran as a presidential candidate for the "Change Alliance" composed of the National Action Party and the Green Ecological Party. In the general election held in July 2000, he defeated the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico, which had been in power for 71 consecutive years, and was elected president. , took office in December of the same year, with a term of six years.

Although Fox won the election, domestic politics showed a three-legged trend, and he was not the leader of the National Action Party. He only relied on friends of Fox, so his policies were very partisan. Among the 15 cabinet members, the opposition National Institutional Party has 6 members, more than the ruling National Action Party. The most important foreign minister is still a Communist. And since the opposition National Revolutionary Party controls 20 of the 31 states in the country and the majority of the Senate and the House of Representatives, any of his reform measures and actions must be approved by the parliament. In a sense, he is a "lame duck" "President," Fox said helplessly, now "the president makes recommendations and the parliament makes decisions."

He is usually informal, dressed in a cowboy outfit, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, leather cap-toe boots, and waistband. Wear a wide, polished belt and have your last name engraved on the buckle. He also had a short, shepherd-like beard. Fox married Lilia de la Concha when he was 29, and they had no children. In 1991, he divorced Lilia. There are 4 street children, 2 boys, 2 girls, and 4 adopted. In July 2001, Fox married her press secretary Marta Sahagón.

Since Mexico’s corruption level ranks sixth in the world, Fox immediately submitted his property declaration list after taking office and took the lead in signing an anti-corruption convention with society. This has won him and the government goodwill from the public, and the support rate has also been greatly improved.

During the campaign, he promised that the economy would grow by 7% every year, but in the first year of taking office, the growth rate was actually a negative 0.9%, an increase of 9% in the second year, only 1.5% in the third year, and an increase of 4.5% in the fourth year. %, which is also lower than the average growth rate in Latin America, falling to 3% in the fifth year. Weak economic growth has caused numerous domestic conflicts. When he was campaigning, he joked that the problem of the Zapatista Liberation Army in the south could be solved in five minutes. However, because he could not guarantee the land issue of the Indians, the negotiations ended in vain, and the government troops were unable to eliminate the peasant rebels. As a result, this problem continued during his term. Drag it down.

Diplomatically, he hopes that the United States will allow free immigration from Mexico after the North American Free Trade Agreement is reached. However, due to the 9.11 attacks, the United States has tightened immigration controls, and U.S. agricultural subsidies have also made Mexico Dissatisfied, Mexico withdrew from the Inter-American Defense System in 2002. In 2003, it did not support the United States' attack on Iraq. The United States was also very disappointed. The relationship between Mexico and Cuba has always been friendly. Fidel Castro set out from Mexico to Cuba to start a revolution. However, after Fox came to power, his diplomacy clearly turned to the right. He condemned Cuba's human rights at the UN General Assembly. The two countries once lowered their relations with each other. diplomatic relations.

In June 2001, he paid a state visit to China and participated in the opening ceremony of the mysterious Mayan exhibition. In October of the same year, he came to Shanghai, China to attend the 9th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. During his administration, he finally reached a bilateral agreement for China to join the WTO, although this was the last country among WTO countries to reach an agreement with China. According to Mexican statistics, the trade volume between China and Mexico was US$2.55 billion in 2001 (of which China exported US$1.79 billion). In 2005, the trade volume between China and Mexico was US$18.7 billion (of which China exported US$17.631 billion). China is already the second largest importer of Mexico. and the country with the largest trade deficit.