Presidency of Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox served as President of Mexico from December 1, 2000 to November 30, 2006. His victory in the federal elections in 2000 ended more than 70 years rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Presidency of Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox
US President George W. Bush, Fox and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper stand in front of "El Castillo", Chichen Itza on Thursday, March 30, 2006.
Vicente Fox with George W. Bush
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 since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 43 percent of the vote.
Official portrait, 2000
Fox during a press conference, June 1990
Items from Fox's presidential campaign on display at the Museo del Objeto del Objeto
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with Fox in Los Pinos, May 2004