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MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mexican riot police sealed off Congress on Friday to protect President Vicente Fox from protests during his final state of the nation speech from leftists claiming fraud in last month's election. Police deployed 6,000 officers equipped with water cannons and blocked nearby streets and metro stations with metal barricades to discourage protesters from massing. Fox, who steps down in December, was to deliver his annual state of the nation speech on Friday evening. Aides said he would not back down to leftist who aimed to disrupt him "He will give a speech to the...

Guest Workers Aren't Cheap; They're Expensive President Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who improved public school standards with "No child left behind." It now looks like his legacy will really be "No illegal alien left behind." As President Bush's poll numbers drop even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is, why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys? The reliable Rasmussen survey,...

The presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition calls for a national march for democracy which as of this Wednesday July 12 will depart all of the electoral districts of the country to concentrate in the Zócalo capital plaza1 on Sunday the 16th; to hold President Fox and the IFE2 responsible for having converted the elections into a simulation. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential candidate of the For the Good of All coalition, called for a national march for democracy to depart all the electoral districts of the country Wednesday July 12, in delivering a message to...

A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment. The "nation's most modern roadway", proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time. However, critics argue that the ten-lane road would lay a swathe of concrete...

MEXICO CITY - With Mexicans going to the polls July 2 to choose a new president, President Vicente Fox soon will be a lame duck. As his six-year term draws to a close, Fox has necessarily had to cede much of the spotlight to the leading presidential candidates, Felipe Calderon of the president's National Action Party, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and Roberto Madrazo of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Nevertheless, a recent poll shows that Fox the may leave office Dec.1 as one of the most popular Mexican presidents in recent history,...

~snip~ With roughly one in 10 Mexicans now living in the United States, President Vicente Fox acknowledges that his country must do more to keep people from looking north for employment. “We want to make it clear to the United States that we have obligations in Mexico. The obligation is to generate jobs. The obligation is to ensure opportunities for our people,” Fox said. ~snip~ Fox's statements signal a change in Mexico's attitude about the immigration problem, political analysts said.

Mexico's President Vicente Fox extended his gratitude to, and praise for, the US Senate for passing an immigration bill he termed "a monumental step forward". The bill, if made law, would provide more than 12 million of illegal aliens with a path to eventual citizenship. However, it must be reconciled with a tougher bill passed in the House of Representatives. Mr Fox, following a four-day trip to the US, said this was "a moment that millions of families have been hoping for". Mr Fox said in an address to the California legislature in Sacramento late on Thursday: "This is the...

Boycott of Fox a protest By: RAY HAYNES - Commentary The president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, spoke to the California Legislature on Thursday; this while the U.S. Senate was voting on an immigration bill. I chose not to go to the Fox speech. Since many people may misconstrue what occurred, I believe a statement explaining my actions is needed. I have been in the Legislature for some time, and I have seen many heads of state pass through. The American republic and its operations are fascinating to these foreign politicians, and addressing the California Legislature is often a high point...

The President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, spoke to the California State Legislature on Thursday; this while the U.S. Senate was voting on an immigration bill. I chose not to go to the Fox speech. Since many people may misconstrue what occurred, I believe a statement explaining my actions is needed. I have been in the Legislature for some time, and I have seen many heads of state pass through. The American Republic and its operations are fascinating to these foreign politicians, and addressing the California Legislature is often a high point in many dignitaries' travels. Appropriate decorum dictates that we...

SACRAMENTO – Mexican President Vicente Fox today lauded President Bush and U.S. senators for passing a comprehensive immigration bill that offers employment and citizenship opportunities, but said most of the credit should go to Mexican immigrants. "Nobody deserved more credit than the ... paisanos here," he said, using the Spanish colloquial word for "countrymen" during a speech to the California Chamber of Commerce and Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "They have fought for it." He offered his "most caring salute to all Mexicans here in the United States," whom he praised for their work ethic and loyalty not only to...

Mexican President Vicente Fox is hailing the Senate's passage of immigration reform legislation that contains sweeping new rights for illegal aliens as a reward for Mexicans. "They fought for it," Fox said Friday at a breakfast meeting with California business leaders. "They earned what they got yesterday," he added. In a speech to the California legislature after the bill's passage on Thursday, Mr. Fox sounded downright ecstatic. "Today's historic vote is a monumental step forward," he declared. "This is a moment that millions of [Mexican] families have been hoping for. This is the moment that millions of people have been...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver today welcomed Mexico President Vicente Fox and his wife, Marta Sahagún de Fox, to California. The President's visit to the Golden State is the last leg of a three-state visit to the United States. The Governor and President met in private for ten minutes in the Governor's office and a larger meeting was held immediately afterward that included advisors to both the Governor and President. The leaders discussed a variety of issues, including ways to increase the already robust business between California and its largest export trading partner. California exported $17.7 billion...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mexican President Vicente Fox told business leaders Friday that his country's re-engineered financial markets and competitive labor costs create a powerful investment opportunity. Speaking to a breakfast meeting of the California Chamber of Commerce, Fox said U.S. companies should use reduced trade barriers between North American nations to "bring one foot in Mexico, one foot in Canada, one foot in United States." "Maybe you raise capital in the United States; now you can raise capital at the same cost in Mexico," he said. The goal of a united North America, Fox said, should be "to regain competitiveness...

SACRAMENTO – Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore said he is refusing to attend Mexican President Vicente Fox's speech before the California Legislature today in protest against Fox's criticism of U.S. immigration overhaul. "I don't appreciate a foreign national telling us what to do with our laws," DeVore, R-Irvine, said Wednesday. Fox has spoken out publicly against proposals to build walls or fences at the border and opposes President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to help with border patrol. DeVore also wrote a letter to Fox decrying how Mexico treats illegal immigrants, writing, "Mexican law calls for undocumented immigrants...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican lawmakers handed federal investigators a box of evidence on Tuesday that they claim shows that two of President Vicente Fox's stepsons were involved in fraud and illicit enrichment through real estate deals. The action by a special congressional committee came less then two months before the July 2 presidential elections, in which Felipe Calderon of Fox's Conservative National Action Party is fighting a tight race against leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Many of the committee's most vocal accusers are from Lopez Obrador's leftist Democratic Revolution Party, and some National Action lawmakers call the accusations an attempt...

CANCUN, Mexico - Putting aside the strains in their dos amigos friendship, President Bush praised Mexican President Vicente Fox during a summit meeting Thursday in which the two are trying to rally support for immigration reforms in the United States. At a time when questions are being asked about Mexico's commitment to securing the two nations' 2,000-mile border, Bush thanked Fox for his country's efforts on both its northern and southern borders and for keeping Mexico's economy stable during his more than five years in office. During the first day of a two-day summit with Fox and Canadian Prime Minister...

BISBEE — As Congress has taken up the issue of immigration reform, the Mexican government of President Vicente Fox has been anything but a disinterested bystander. When the House of Representatives approved a bill in December that would have built 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and made it a felony to reside illegally in the U.S., Fox denounced the measure as shameful. His foreign minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, went further and called it stupid and underhanded. After thousands of marchers took to the streets of U.S. cities last week to protest the pending immigration legislation, Fox’s spokesman,...

CANCUN, Mexico (CNN) -- We're reporting live this week from Cancun, where the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are meeting in a trilateral summit. And despite the contentious debate raging in the U.S. Senate over illegal immigration and the guest-worker program, this summit has a remarkably modest agenda. U.S. President George Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will only try to advance the discussion among the three countries on economic integration, free trade, border and port security, and, yes, illegal immigration. ......... The United States is challenged as never before in the...

President George W Bush is in Mexico for 2 days of talks. Yesterday Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Annual Dinner Link to download this funny presentation Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had meetings in Berlin and then travelled to England for a visit in the north of England with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island