Posted on 02/28/2007 4:52:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY - Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is writing a memoir that will detail his ups and down with world leaders around the globe, from Cuba's Fidel Castro to President Bush, Viking announced Wednesday.
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, will publish "Revolution of Hope" in October.
The book will be co-written by Fox and his close friend, public relations consultant Rob Allyn, who spent much of December and January working with Fox at his ranch in central Mexico.
"The president's goal is to share his views about issues like immigration, the war in Iraq, globalism, free trade and the moral imperative that world leaders have to heal the global divide between wealthy countries and countries that aspire to prosperity," Allyn said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
He and Viking refused to release how much the book deal was worth, although Fox's literary agent, Jan Miller, told the AP that it was "a VERY nice deal."
Fox left office on Dec. 1 after a constitutionally mandated, single six-year term.
His surprise election in 2000 ended 71 years of one-party rule in Mexico, and the election to replace him was Mexico's closest ever, with the Federal Electoral Tribunal declaring President Felipe Calderon the winner with less than 1 percentage point. Calderon's rival, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, accused Fox of meddling in the election.
Fox has been hailed internationally as Mexico's first truly democratic president, but he was also widely criticized for failing to create jobs and raise wages in Mexico. He was a close friend of Bush, even though relations between the two chilled after the Mexican leader refused to back the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Fox's memoir is part of his effort to build on his legacy as the man who ushered in Mexico's democratic era.
"With this book, we want to spark a revolution of hope, to rekindle the original spirit of the Americas, the New World where immigrants like my grandfathers came to find lands of opportunity," said Fox, the son and grandson of immigrants from the United States, Spain and Germany.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is telling all in a memoir that will detail his ups and down with world leaders around the globe, from Cuban's Fidel Castro to U.S. President George W. Bush, Viking announced Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills-File)
Instead of "Revolution of Hope"
it ought to be called
"Revolution of Dope"
A sequel to "The Audacity of Hope". To be followed by "The Commercial Value of Writing About Hope".
Oh, this is ripe, coming from a leader whose own country is so rife with corruption and cronyism that they can't take care of their own.
Take a gander at this website and get a good look at Rob Allyn and his connection to George W. Bush and Vicente Fox.
Politicfal and shady dealings?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Allyn
What ups and downs with Bush. It seems as though he had the upper hand.
What ups and downs with Bush. It seems as though he had the upper hand.
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Vincente did a great job, with the help of a politically-driven, hands-off Congress to import a HUGE chunk of his crime and poverty to the United States and have it result in his SECOND LARGEST money-generating industry for Mexico, just behind oil. And at the same time, set himself up with a Manchurian Candidate in the White House who will do everything possible to PREVENT closing of America's borders to criminal ILLEGAL aliens accompanied by over $100 BILLION per year in social programs, welfare, education and medication for these same criminals who LAUGH AT OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS and our Washington government.
Subtitled: How I Sent a Generation of Mexicans Across the U.S. Border.
the subtitlte will be "how to dump your poor, uneducated populace on a neighboring country and make millions"
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