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...impatient man. When Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada wants to make a phone call, he's as likely to dial himself as to wait for a secretary to do it. When he needs to talk to an adviser, he discards the standard chief-executive drill of sending a flunky to summon the official. Instead, boot heels clacking on the wooden floors of Los Pinos--the Mexican White House--Fox strides down the hall to the adviser's office himself...
That temperament is ill suited to the byplays, gambits and bluffs of negotiation and is one reason his big tax-reform plan and other domestic initiatives haven't got far. But no Mexican President--ever--has gone over in the U.S. the way Fox has. "I was watching the political elite going nutso for this guy. It was like Madonna had come to town," says Ana Maria Salazar, a former Clinton Administration official now teaching in Mexico, describing Fox's appearance one year ago at an Inter-American Development Bank event in Washington. And no Mexican President has ever...
...even though nationalism, suspicion of the U.S. and fear of U.S. domination once seemed to be the DNA of Mexican politics, Fox's drive to deepen and intensify Mexico's relationship with what used to be called, unflatteringly, the Colossus of the North gets nearly unanimous applause from ordinary Mexicans and from political opponents. "In principle it's a great plan that we support," says Eddy Varon Levy, a green card-carrying, part-time resident of Los Angeles who is the deputy international-affairs coordinator for the once-ruling P.R.I. congressional delegation...
P.R.I. politicos and other Fox opponents are worried that his dream of a new relationship could wind up with Mexico's giving away all its mineral resources and business potential--including full ownership of big firms--in return for the U.S.'s allowing, say, a few thousand Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director...
...some relished what seemed to be ringside seats at the revolution, others were more skeptical. They wanted to know why Global Exchange hadn't scheduled briefings with Mexican government officials, to hear from those who see indigenous demands as a threat to Mexican unity, for example. Ryan Zinn, the trip leader, said government representatives have declined to meet with reality tours and that the group is not set up to satisfy the complex visa requirements for official delegations. Meanwhile, not every event got the thumbs-up. At the end of the trip, eyes glazed over during a two-hour harangue...