El hormiguero mexico vicente fox biography

Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City, July 2, 1942.

He is the second of nine children born to farmer José Luis Fox, now deceased, and Mercedes Quesada.

As a child, together with his family he moved to the San Cristóbal ranch in the municipality of San Francisco del Rincón, in the state of Guanajuato, where he would play with the children of the communal land owners, share with them their childhood and, in his own words, "see close up one of the evils that unnecessarily afflicted our country: poverty".

Vicente Fox is friendly, respectful, straightforward, and honest. Life on the farm taught him to value the loyalty of people and appreciate Mexico's enormous potential to become in every way a successful nation.

"I know the importance of opportunity –he says firmly–. I grew up on the land with the children of peasants and the only thing that sets me apart from my childhood friends are the opportunities I had and the