Twenty-six years ago, Vicente Fox Quesada defeated the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to become the first president from an opposition party in Mexico, as the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Today, at the age of 84, he looks back with nostalgia on the golden years of that transition, of which he was both the protagonist and beneficiary, and angrily describes the institutional erosion he blames on former and current presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum. Fox recently returned from Peru, where he paid witness to the swearing-in of Keiko Fujimori, and seems enthusiastic about the rise of right-wing governments across the region; a spread for which he has a simple explanation: “When after two or three populist administrations there haven’t been any results, people say, ‘Enough.’”
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