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Vicente Fox insults Telemundo reporter

7:11 pm By Maegan La Mala · Media| TV| mexico · Comments Off

17 Oct 2007

Ex-president of Mexico Vicente Fox thought he was going to have a low-key interview when he arrived at the studios of Telemundo 52 in Los Angeles, but he got more than he bargained for when the reporter asked him some uncomfortable questions about a current scandal regarding properties owned by his wife, Marta Sahagun. In town to promote his English-language autobiography, Fox sat down with reporter Rubén Luengas and it didn’t take long for sparks to fly and for the ex-president to eventually explode:

Mexico City’s La Jornada has the transcript here, but if you’re interested in cutting to the chase, Fox calls Luengas a battery of names, among them “liar” and “vulgar”.

Vicente Fox Comes Tumbling Down

9:17 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| mexico · Comments Off

15 Oct 2007

Former Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox has alot of ’splaining to do about some renovations he did on his ranch and how he paid for that work. But some Mexicans are a little impatient. A 10-foot bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox in Boca del Rio, Veracruz was erected yesterday and just hours later it came tumbling down. It has been said that those responsible are members of the PRI.

Fox talks about Chavez, Bush

10:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Books| Politics| mexico · Comments Off

8 Oct 2007

Last month we told you about ex-President of Mexico Vicente Fox’s new autobiography, which features some intimate words about George W. Bush. Well, Bush isn’t the only leader mentioned in Chente’s new book, which also takes aim at the Latin American leftist alliance:

When Chavez “gets long-winded,” wrote Fox, describing the 2004 Summit of the Americas held in Mexico, “it’s time for the other presidents to go for a bottle of water and some cookies, and try to do some real business in the hallways.”

Fox also had an all-night dinner with Fidel Castro, “the region’s most infamous revolutionary,” a man who had a “strange habit of pulling his ears between every bite of food.”

The AFP reports that Fox refers to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as “the new Fidel” in his book, and laments his popularity in Ecuador and Bolivia.

Via / Yahoo! News

Vicente Fox tells all about Bush

11:38 am By Maegan La Mala · Books| Politics| mexico · Comments Off

21 Sep 2007

Former president of Mexico Vicente Fox is telling it like it is in his new autobiography, and he’s got a lot of things to say about his friend Dubya, whom he calls “the cockiest guy I’ve ever met”:

“My first impression of George W. Bush was one of total self-confidence. He is quite simply the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life,” Fox wrote, according to an advance copy of the book.

Except, perhaps, when it came to language skills. Fox said Bush was “a bit sheepish as he tried out his grade-school-level Spanish” at that meeting in Austin, Texas.

Fox: Vargas Llosa is Colombian

11:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| Politics| mexico · 3 Comments

31 Jan 2007

It’s nice to know that we’re not the only nation with a president that says dumb things. Mexico’s ex-president, Vicente Fox, is making media all over Latin America chuckle with his latest foot in the mouth:

“Latin America must flee from the ‘perfect dictatorship’, as Colombian Nobel prize winner for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa said…”

Ex-president of Mexico Vicente Fox was quite sure of himself when he mentioned the Peruvian writer (a Spanish national) Vargas Llosa who, as far as we know, never won the Nobel.

Maybe someone should open a culture school for Presidents or their speech writers.

Fox was evidentally trying to make a point about what he sees as a rise in dictatorships in Latin America, but not only did he goof up the celebrated author’s nationality and decorations, according to 20 Minutos Vargas Llosa was actually referring to Mexico and the PRI regimen in that particular statement.

More at ElUniversal.com.mx (Spanish)

Via / 20 Minutos

Mexican President-Elect: Border wall a big mistake

7:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics| mexico · 1 Comment

26 Oct 2006

Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderón today called the extension of the border wall proposed by the U.S. government “a serious mistake”.

The comments were made in a press conference during a visit with the Canadian Prime Minister in which, according to Mexican daily El Universal he compared the building of the border wall with that of the Berlin Wall.

Calderón also called the decision on the part of the U.S. to continue with the project “deplorable” and claimed that “it won’t resolve anything”.

Meanwhile, Mexican president Vicente Fox is calling the wall “useless and shameful”, and went on to say:

“I think this is shameful for the U.S. and proof of its inability to see the immigration issue as one of mutual responsibility.”

Via / El Universal

Chavez won’t recognize new Mexican president

7:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics| Venezuela| mexico · Comments Off

18 Sep 2006

Am I the only one who’s not surprised when Hugo Chavez runs his mouth? Apparently, Vicente Fox is surprised — and unhappy — about recent comments made by Chavez with regard to the brand-spanking new president of Mexico:

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez reiterated Sunday in Caracas that his government “does not recognize the president elect of Mexico” who he said “represents a desperate extreme right which appeals to all sorts of dirty tricks”, although “it’s difficult to see them hail victory”.

“We do not recognize the government of Mexico or its president elect because many strange things happened their (sic)”, said Chavez interviewed by the Latinamerican television Telesur.

Chavez recalled that president elect Felipe Calderon and “the desperate right”, blasted against him during the (Mexican) electoral campaign with the purpose of presenting left wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as “Satan”.

Fox is calling Chavez’s comments “butting in” and vows not to meet with the Venezuelan leader at UN meetings this week.

Via / MercoPress and El Universal

Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”

1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media| radio · 6 Comments

28 Mar 2006

It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.

LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?

I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.

Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.

Via / Media Matters

Minnesota governor goes after immigrants

6:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics| States · Comments Off

3 Feb 2006

vstory.pawlenty.jpg Gov. Tim Pawlenty is concerned about illegal immigrants residing in his state. Concerned is an understatement, actually. After years of injecting anti-immigrant sentiment into his campaign messages, he’s once again making immigration — a federal issue — a platform for his re-election campaign in traditionally Democratic Minnesota:

His administration issued a report in December estimating that as many as 85,000 illegal immigrants live in Minnesota, at a cost to taxpayers of up to $188 million a year.

Democrats and other critics questioned the Republican governor’s numbers and his motives. But that hasn’t stopped Pawlenty from making immigration a top issue as he seeks re-election.

Mexico Needs PR

1:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · PR| Politics| mexico · Comments Off

1 Feb 2006

Mexico’s looking to shine up its image in the eyes of the U.S. and it’s going to do it through the age-old craft of Public Relations:

Fed up with the drumbeat of news stories about drug wars, police corruption, border mayhem and illegal immigration, the government of Mexico has followed a time-honored course for anyone seeking an image makeover: It’s hired a PR firm.

Rob Allyn, a prominent Dallas public-relations craftsman who helped shape Mexican President Vicente Fox’s stunning election victory in 2000, now shoulders the burden of pushing aside a largely negative U.S. perception of Mexico as a land of drug lords and economic hardship.

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