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Opposition protesters in Mexico have torn down a bronze statue of the former president, Vicente Fox, just hours after it was erected. They threw eggs at the monument in Boca del Rio in the state of Veracruz, before putting a rope around its neck and pulling it to the ground. Many of the crowd were reported to be supporters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. It lost power after more than 70 years when Mr Fox was elected in July 2000. More than 100 angry protesters are reported to have attacked the statue on Saturday morning, just after it...

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico (Reuters) - President Vicente Fox warned on Tuesday that a proposed high security border fence to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States will fall just like the Berlin Wall. The fence, approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last month, has angered many Mexicans and Fox's government is lobbying U.S. Senate leaders to block it while also rallying opposition from other Latin American nations. "What is not resolved by intelligent policies and by leaders is resolved by citizens. That is how the Berlin Wall fell and that is how this wall will fall," Fox told Reuters....

WND Exclusive CONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES Big money in Mexican meth New laws cut down on U.S. labs, but drugs still flow Posted: August 19, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com While new state and federal laws are cutting down the number of U.S. meth labs, the deadly drugs continue to flow into the U.S. across the porous border with Mexico, say law enforcement authorities. The federal anti-meth law was recently amended to permit states to impose their own stiffer restrictions and penalties. In Oregon, for instance, legislators now require cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a principal ingredient in methamphetamine, to...

FAIR Press Release: Former Mexican Foreign Minister Demands Open Border for Migrants In Exchange for Cooperation on Security at Congressional Hearing Members of U.S. Congress Offer No Reaction to Blackmail On Tuesday, four days after the bombings on the London transit system refocused Congress and the American public on the threat of global terrorism, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that "No border security is possible without Mexican cooperation" and that "there can be no cooperation [from the Mexican government] without some sort of immigration reform package." Castaneda, now a professor at New...

Five days after President Vicente Fox provoked a storm of outrage in the United States by saying that Mexican migrants do work that "not even blacks want to do," the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said in a visit to Mexico on Wednesday that he welcomed the remarks, in a backhand sort of way. "President Fox has opened a door," Jackson said in an interview. "Just like the bus driver who put Rosa Parks off the bus. He opened a door for us to talk about the system of denial." By that Jackson seemed to mean that Fox's statement, which he...

"Three amigos" NAFTA summit planned: Canada PM Thu Jan 27, 1:27 PM ET Canada - AFP OTTAWA, Jan 27 (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said that US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Mexico's President Vicente Fox (news - web sites) had agreed to join him in a summit to tinker with the North American Free Trade Agreement. Martin has pressed Bush especially to act to strengthen NAFTA's dispute settlement mechanism, irked by the US response to rulings on issues such as Canada's softwood lumber exports to the United States. "There are gaps in NAFTA...

Excerpts: MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox will visit Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota during an upcoming three-day U.S. visit... Fox, who is scheduled to leave [Mexico] early Wednesday, is looking to strengthen his governments ties to the region's leaders, as well as drum up support for Midwest investment in Mexico and stress the need to protect the human rights of Mexicans living and working illegally in the region.SNIP In case any Freepers wish to welcome him, this is my summary of El Jefe's visit (I'm assuming that the article is talking about this week): Wednesday 6/16 Scheduled to land in...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday said he was concerned about the situation in Iraq and wanted the United Nations to play a greater role. "We would like to see a strong and active presence of the United Nations and with enough capacity to solve this conflict," Fox said during a visit to the Hungarian capital. "Mexico's position at this time is one of worry about what is happening in Iraq." Though tradition and the constitution prevent Mexico from contributing troops to military operations or peacekeeping efforts, the country is "involved in the search for peaceful...

* Fox asks California to restore a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to hold the permits. MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox called Thursday for the restoration of a California law that would allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, saying it would benefit more than 1 million Mexicans who are "working people … decent people." "We will be fighting tooth and nail to convince the state of California to once again issue licenses to all Mexican migrants, independent of their legal status," he [Fox] told migrants in Nuevo Laredo. California should do this, he said, "because they are...

Press Room House Republicans Want ‘Bedrock Principles’ To Guide U.S. Immigration Policies 63 Members Sign Hayworth Letter to President Bush As U.S.-Mexico Resume Talks on Border Issues November 12, 2003 WASHINGTON – A group of House Republicans today urged President Bush to support an immigration policy with Mexico “that celebrates our immigrant heritage, secures our borders, draws a bright line between legal and illegal aliens, and rejects any and all forms of amnesty.” The letter, written by Rep. J.D. Hayworth and co-signed by 63 House members, was sent to the White House today as the U.S. and Mexico opened a...

washingtonpost.com Fox Laments 'Stalled' Relations Between U.S., Mexico Leader Says His Credibility Is Being Undermined by Bush's Failure to Speed Immigration Reform By Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, May 10, 2002; Page A28 MEXICO CITY, May 9 -- President Vicente Fox said tonight that progress in relations with the United States has "stalled" and that Washington's failure to deliver concrete results on immigration reform is undermining his credibility at home. In a speech in New York to the Council of the Americas, a U.S. business organization concerned with hemispheric issues, Fox said he and President...