More recently, Vicente Fox served as President from 2000 to 2006.

* 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

Seven decades of PRI rule ended in the year 2000 with the election of Vicente Fox of the Partido Acción Nacional ( PAN ).

Vicente Fox, president 2000-2006

Vicente Fox won the election with 43 % of the vote, followed by PRI candidate Francisco Labastida with 36 %, and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) with 17 %.

In the 2000s, former President Vicente Fox adopted a new foreign policy that calls for an openness and an acceptance of criticism from the international community and the increase of Mexican involvement in foreign affairs, as well as a further integration towards its northern neighbors.

During the first presidency of the National Action Party, Vicente Fox appointed Jorge Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

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Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

Since leaving the presidency, Vicente Fox has been involved in public speaking and the construction of the Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum.

Vicente Fox was born in Guanajuato on July 2, 1942, the second of nine children.

Vicente Fox married a receptionist at Coca-Cola, Lilian de la Concha.

Vicente Fox married for the second time while in office as President.

After retiring from Coca-Cola, Vicente Fox began to participate in various public activities in Guanajuato, where he created the " Patronato de la Casa Cuna Amigo Daniel ", an orphanage.

With the support of Manuel Clouthier, Vicente Fox joined the Partido Acción Nacional on March 1, 1988.

** Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN ( National Action Party ), ending 71 years of PRI ( Institutional Revolutionary Party ) rule.

* December 1 – Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico.

* Vicente Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election, making him the first president elected from an opposition party in 71 years, defeating the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ).

* July 2 – Vicente Fox, President of Mexico

The Centro Civico Mexicano acts as a community gathering point for the Wasatch Front's estimated 300, 000 Latinos, Mexican President Vicente Fox began his U. S. tour in the city in 2006.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Eventually in 2001, President Vicente Fox, the president that ended the 70-year reign of the PRI, attempted to resolve who had orchestrated the massacre.

Spanish history remembers this battle for the vain gallantry of the Guard and Walloon regiments under Don Vicente Genaro de Quesada.

It was this PAN / PVEM alliance that carried Vicente Fox Quesada to his presidential victory.

He was a son of General Vicente Quesada, a Conservative officer who was murdered and atrociously mutilated in the streets of Madrid by a revolutionary mob in the early days of Queen Isabella's reign.

Madrazo accepted the outcome, but his aggressive internal campaign had weakened Labastida's candidacy in the eyes of the electorate, and was seen as a major factor in his defeat by the National Action Party ( PAN ) candidate Vicente Fox Quesada.

The Liberal generals, such as Vicente Genaro de Quesada and Marcelino de Oraá Lecumberri, were often veterans of the Peninsular War, or of the wars resulting from independence movements in South America.

* Vicente Fox Quesada

* Entrevista que concedió el Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada a Grupo FM Noticias de Veracruz, November 2, 2005

* Vicente Quesada ( 1812 – 1877 ), Chilean lawyer and lawmaker, father of Jenaro Quesada

Those proposals made no headway, however, until after the election of Vicente Fox Quesada of the Partido Acción Nacional, or PAN, in 2000.

It was also obtained the National award of Energy Saving 2001 that was handed in by the National President Vicente Fox Quesada.

Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, the only child of Italian immigrant parents, Vicente " Nonino " Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti.

His older brother, Juan Vicente, who died in 1811 on a diplomatic mission to the United States, had three children born out of wedlock whom he recognized: Juan, Fernando Simón, and Felicia Bolívar Tinoco.

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo ( April 26, 1889 – December 14, 1984 ) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.

Fernando Martins de Bulhões was born in Lisbon to Vicente Martins de Bulhões and Teresa Pais Taveira.

Floresville was also the birthplace of Vicente T. Ximenes ( born 1919 ), a former member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a civil rights activist.

While the Philippines ' national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, his brother, Paciano Rizal and Vicente Lim are also born in Calamba City.

" The first non-missionary district superintendents were George Sharpe ( born in Scotland in 1865 ; died 1948 ) in Britain ( November 1915 ) and Vicente G. Santin ( 1870 – 1948 ), appointed district superintendent in Mexico in 1919.

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández ( January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948 ) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family.

Mariano Vallejo was born in Monterey, California, the eighth of thirteen children and third son of Ignacio Vicente Ferrer Vallejo ( July 29, 1748 – May 10, 1832 ) and María Antonia Lugo ( September 1, 1776 – May 7, 1855 ).

Luis Vicente Gutiérrez ( born December 10, 1953 ) is an American politician and the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1993.

He was born in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí to Spanish soldier José María González Yáñez and Francisca Bocanegra y Villalpando, sister of the Foreign Relations Secretary under President Vicente Guerrero, José María Bocanegra.

He was born in San Ramón, Alajuela, to Don Juan Vicente Acosta and Doña Jesus García.

Félix Savón Fabre ( born September 22, 1967 in San Vicente, Cuba ) is a Cuban heavyweight boxer, a winner of three gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Vicente Amigo Girol ( born 25 March 1967 ) is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville.

Marta Sahagún de Fox ( born Marta María Sahagún Jiménez on April 10, 1953 ) became the First Lady of Mexico on July 2, 2001, when she married President Vicente Fox, serving in that post until he left office as President in December, 2006.

Vicente Alberto ( Tinín ) Álvarez Areces ( born August 4, 1943 in Gijón ) is a Asturian politician.

He was born in Santiago, the son of Vicente María Ovalle Guzmán and of María del Rosario Bezanilla y Noriega.

Wiklenman Vicente " Wiki " González ( born May 17, 1974 in Aragua, Venezuela ) is a former Major League Baseball player.

Out of these bands rose two men, Guadalupe Victoria ( born José Miguel Fernández y Félix ) in Puebla and Vicente Guerrero in Oaxaca, both of whom were able to command allegiance and respect from their followers.

Francisco Labastida Ochoa ( born August 14, 1942 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa ) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox.

José Vicente Rangel Vale ( born 10 July 1929 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan leftist politician.

Almudena Gallardo Vicente ( born March 26, 1979 in Madrid ) is a female Spanish archer.