Vicente Fox before the Mexican Congress

Foxilandia is a critical term used in the Mexican political culture to make reference to the administration (2000–2006) of President Vicente Fox. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x1312, 192 KB) English Mexican President Vicente Fox addressing the Mexican Congress in his 4th State of the Union Speech. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x1312, 192 KB) English Mexican President Vicente Fox addressing the Mexican Congress in his 4th State of the Union Speech. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. ... Vicente Fox Quesada (born July 2, 1942) was the President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. ...

It was first used during the appearance of President Fox before the Congress of the Union in September 2004,^[1] in arguments by the opposition that Fox's vision of Mexico greatly differed from theirs. The connotation is that "Foxilandia", or Fox's vision, is impossible, unrealistic, a fantasy, while, in logical contrast, theirs would be balanced and realistic. Congress (formally: Congreso de la Unión or Congress of the Union) is the legislative branch of the Mexican government. ... September 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Events Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8...

This term has been used by Vicente Fox in his radio program Fox Contigo ("Fox With You")^[2] Andrés Manuel López Obrador^[3], and journalists from major newspapers in Mexico such as El Universal^[4], La Jornada^[5] and Reforma^[6]. Foxilandia has also been used in political documentaries such as Aventuras en Foxilandia by Carlos Mendoza Aupetit,^[7] and Who is Mr. López by director Luis Mandoki and the film Un mundo maravilloso (2006) by film director Luis Estrada^[8]. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (born 13 November 1953) is a Mexican politician, affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). ... El Universal is a major Mexican newspaper. ... La Jornada is one of Mexico Citys leading daily newspapers. ... Reforma is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. ... ¿Quién es el señor López? (Spanish for Who is Mr. ... Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a film director of the Cinema of Mexico and Hollywood. ... Un mundo maravilloso is a 2006 Mexican comedy film/fairy tale produced by Bandidos Films, directed by Luis Estrada and considered a spiritual sequel to La ley de Herodes; its a political satire about Vicente Fox Quesadas government and its neo-liberal doctrine. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Foxilandia by Luis Mandoki

Chapter 14 of Luis Mandoki's Who is Mr. López documentary is titled "Foxilandia"^[9]) journalists Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, Jaime Avilés and professors Denise Dresser (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, ITAM) and Lorenzo Meyer (Colegio de México, COLMEX) and news anchor Joaquín López-Dóriga contrast Fox's official declarations with reality as well as Fox's campaign promises and its results such as: Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra (born 22 January 1963) is a Mexican political analyst, writer, and university professor. ... The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), is a private research university located in Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico. ... El Colegio de México (informally: Colmex) is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specialising in teaching and research in the fields of social sciences and the humanities. ... A news anchor (US,Can. ... Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (b. ...

• Economy growing at a 7% rate and creating 1,350,000 jobs, while the economy grew 0.7% from 2001-2003^[10] and unemployment grew 188%^[11] Nevertheless, the rise in unemployment can be attributed to the record deficit in the United States.
• Promise of deep political change but the Undersecretary of Finance during Carlos Salinas's government became Secretary of Finance during Fox's term and the Secretary of Finance during Ernesto Zedillo's government became Governor of the Bank of Mexico.
• Fox highlighted a change in customs in Mexican politics by saying that in his term the President would not interfere with the electoral process. The documentary shows video-footage of several demonstrations of Fox supporting the candidates of the ruling party and of Alfonso Durazo, his former personal secretary, declaring that no previous President was ever as active campaigning for candidates of his own party as was Fox. However, it is widely known in Mexico that Presidents before Vicente Fox always handpicked their successor.

The term has also been used by Grupo Reforma to describe Fox's project of a library of his legacy in his hometown of San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato. ^[6] The library however, will be a project that is closely modeled after presidential libraries in the United States. In Mexico The Secretary of Finance is the head of the Department of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público or SHCP). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (born December 27, 1951) was President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. ... The Banco de México (Spanish: Bank of Mexico), abbreviated BdeM or Banxico, is Mexicos central bank. ... Alfonso Durazo Montaño is a Mexican politician and a former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox. ... Grupo Reforma is media company that controls a number of Mexican daily newspapers including El Norte in Monterrey, Reforma in Mexico City, Mural in Guadalajara, and Palabra in Saltillo . ... San Francisco del Rincón is city in the in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. ... Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. ...

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External links

• ¿Viviremos en Foxilandia?
• Foxilandia as seen by Luis Mandoki
• Aventuras en Foxilandia as seen by Carlos Mendoza
• (Spanish) Foxilandia at the journal "Criterios"
• (Spanish) Foxilandia at the editoral of the journal "Así es Tamaulipas"
• (Spanish) Foxilandia at RadioFormula