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Mexicans are still getting used to a politician who campaigned nearly as much after his election as he did before. Fox likes to hit the streets in preplanned walking tours but has genuine encounters with voters along the way, while cameras record the sometimes testy back-and-forth. And Fox has crisscrossed his country to rally support for his tax-reform plan, which would place new levies on food, medicine and books as part of an overhaul of the notoriously inefficient tax system. If some of this salesmanship sounds familiar, that's because Fox's communications director, Francisco Ortiz, twice...
...Fox will need every ounce of his formidable charisma to get that measure approved. If he can sell the Mexican public on the idea, he will still have to get the measure approved by a Congress whose members, by law, cannot succeed themselves, giving them little incentive to respond to public opinion. But that too may be changing because of rising awareness that one-term members of Congress lack the expertise to check and balance the presidency effectively...
...Fox appears to be doing everything he can to broaden his party's base in the north. He has called for allowing Mexicans abroad to cast absentee ballots. "All Mexicans, wherever they are, should have the right to vote," he said, weeks after his inauguration last Dec. 1. And he transformed the Office of Mexicans Abroad into a top-level presidential agency to link directly migrants and the chief executive and serve as an advocate for them in the U.S. Fox has said that he intends to be President to "all Mexicans"--at home and abroad...
...every Mexican politician is styling himself after Fox. But of the five who turned up for the debate away from home in L.A. last month, three had made their fortunes in the U.S. before returning to Jerez to begin political careers. Andres Bermudez, 50, vowed that "from now on, government has to do better." Bermudez, the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate, knows a thing or two about self-improvement. He entered Los Angeles in 1974 hidden in a car trunk, then went on to start greenhouse and orchard businesses that now employ 800 workers--nearly all Mexicans...
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