Editing Vicente Fox (section)

==Post-presidential life==

===Public speaking and advocacy===
Since leaving office in December 2006, Fox has maintained himself in the public eye by speaking in countries such as Nigeria, Ireland,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://survey.telefonica.com/category/blog/oneyoungworld/|title=One Young World Archives – Telefonica|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925134656/http://survey.telefonica.com/category/blog/oneyoungworld/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Canada, and the United States about topics such as the [[Controversies of the 2006 Mexican general election|controversial 2006 election]] and the [[Iraq War]]. In Mexico, Fox has been criticized by some for his busy post-presidency since former Mexican presidents are traditionally expected to stay out of the political spotlight.  In response, Fox has stated, "There is no reason to hold to the anti-democratic rules of those who still live in the authoritarian past . . . now that Mexico is a democracy, every citizen has the right to express himself, even a former president."<ref>Wall, Allan. [http://mexidata.info/id1547.html "Fox Redefines the Role of Past Mexican Presidents"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125085136/http://mexidata.info/id1547.html |date=25 November 2010 }} (accessed 20 January 2010).</ref>

Vicente Fox joined four other Latin American presidents at the One Young World Summit 2014 in [[Dublin]], Ireland,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://centrofox.org.mx/en/vicente-fox-participa-en-cumbre-mundial-one-young-world-2014/|title=Centro Fox » (Español) Vicente Fox participa en cumbre mundial One Young World 2014: "La erradicación de la corrupción tiene que empezar con la educación"|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-date=1 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501202639/http://centrofox.org.mx/en/vicente-fox-participa-en-cumbre-mundial-one-young-world-2014/|url-status=dead}}</ref> to discuss the [[Telefónica]] Millennial Survey. He told those in the audience that eradicating corruption "has to start with education" and that his focus is now on promoting leadership.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8jiHvvGcv4&list=UUFnB6jXxfLsD3CmNIZ8iYCg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/M8jiHvvGcv4| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=President Vicente Fox of Mexico Introduces Himself|last=One Young World|date=17 October 2014|access-date=6 November 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Vicente Fox is a member of the [[Global Leadership Foundation]], a not-for-profit organization that offers, discreetly and confidentially, a range of experienced advisors to political leaders facing difficult situations.

[[File:CalderonFox.jpg|thumb|left|Fox with [[Felipe Calderón]] Hinojosa]] 
In 2013, Fox discussed why the West has pursued a moral crusade against drugs at [[HowTheLightGetsIn]] festival in [[Hay-on-Wye]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fox|first=Vicente|title=Drugs, Money and Morality|url=http://iai.tv/video/drugs-money-and-morality|publisher=IAI|access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref> with [[Chris Bryant]] and [[John Ralston Saul]]. The three debated whether it is hypocritical to ban certain drugs while continuing to export others such as alcohol and tobacco, and whether to follow the lead of Washington and Colorado states in the U.S. and allow the free trading of drugs.

Vicente Fox gave a video interview in July 2013 to ''[[High Times]]'', in which he discussed the failure of drug prohibition, and cited Portugal's [[Drug policy of Portugal|decriminalization policies]] as "working splendid(ly)."  He said he supports drug legalization despite not being a user himself, just as he said he also "fully respects" [[same-sex marriage in Mexico|same-sex marriage]] although he does not personally agree with it.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hampton|first=Justin|title=President Vicente Fox: The HIGH TIMES Interview|url=http://www.hightimes.com/watch/high-times-interview-president-vicente-fox/|work=High Times|access-date=18 February 2014|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190111/http://www.hightimes.com/watch/high-times-interview-president-vicente-fox|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In February 2014, Fox wrote an opinion piece that was published in [[Toronto]]'s ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' in which he stated that, "Legalization of not just marijuana, but all drugs, is the right thing to do."<ref name=g&m>{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Vicente |title=For Mexico, legalization is freedom |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/for-mexico-legalization-is-freedom/article16907137/ |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=18 February 2014 |location=Toronto |date=17 February 2014}}</ref> He also said that "we must be given the very freedom to decide our own behaviour and to act responsibly, as long as we do not detrimentally affect the rights of others".<ref name=g&m/>

In 2016, Fox co-signed a letter to [[Ban Ki-moon]] calling for a more humane drug policy.

In July 2017, Fox was an [[Election monitoring|international observer]] to the [[2017 Venezuelan referendum|unofficial Venezuelan referendum]] held by the opposition.<ref name="Venezuela">{{cite web|title=Venezuela declara a Vicente Fox persona 'non grata'|url=http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/07/17/1176049|website=Excélsior|access-date=20 July 2017|language=es|date=17 July 2017}}</ref> During the trip, Fox gave a speech that compared the referendum to the 2000 Mexican elections.<ref name="Venezuela2">{{cite web|title=Venezuela declara 'persona non grata' a Vicente Fox|url=http://www.milenio.com/internacional/vicente_fox_quesada-venezuela-persona_no_grata-presidente_mexico-noticias_0_994100860.html|website=Milenio|date=16 July 2017 |access-date=20 July 2017|language=es}}</ref> He said that "this battle has been won" and "step by step, vote by vote, the dictator will leave."<ref name="Venezuela3">{{cite web|title=Vicente Fox es declarado persona 'non grata' en Venezuela|url=http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/mundo/vicente-fox-es-declarado-persona-non-grata-en-venezuela.html|website=elfinanciero.com.mx|date=17 July 2017 |access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref> He was subsequently declared a [[persona non grata]] by the Venezuelan government.<ref name="Venezuela"/> Venezuelan Foreign Minister [[Samuel Moncada]] said that Fox had taken advantage of the country's hospitality and "was paid to come to Venezuela to promote violence and the intervention of foreign powers."<ref name="Venezuela2"/> Moncado said the ban came from Maduro and criticized Fox and the other former Latin American leaders invited as observers ([[Andrés Pastrana]], [[Jorge Quiroga]], [[Laura Chinchilla]] and [[Miguel Ángel Rodríguez]]) as "political sicarios," "clowns" and "mercenaries" that "sell themselves to the highest bidder to go to various destinations and repeat what they are told."<ref name="Venezuela3"/> Fox said he was not surprised by the ban and that the vote would weaken Maduro.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vicente Fox responde a Venezuela tras ser nombrado|url=https://www.publimetro.com.mx/mx/noticias/2017/07/18/vicente-fox-responde-venezuela.html|website=Publimetro México|date=18 July 2017 |access-date=21 July 2017|language=es-ES}}</ref>

In 2018, Fox joined the ''[[High Times]]'' board of directors.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blood |first1=Michael R. |title=Former Mexico President Vicente Fox joins High Times board |url=https://apnews.com/article/157a549f4ed14396b46d8e72f937d44b |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=AP News |date=18 June 2018}}</ref> He left the board in 2020 over concerns surrounding the company's stock offering.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schreckinger |first1=Ben |title=How Legal Weed Destroyed a Counterculture Icon |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/04/high-times-hard-times-404419 |access-date=10 January 2021 |work=Politico |date=4 September 2020}}</ref>

He supported [[Javier Milei]] in [[2023 Argentine general election]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-11-12/los-expresidentes-rajoy-pinera-duque-y-calderon-piden-el-voto-para-el-ultraderechista-milei-en-argentina.html | title=El Nobel Vargas Llosa y los expresidentes Rajoy, Duque y Piñera piden el voto para el ultraderechista Milei en Argentina | date=12 November 2023 }}</ref>

===Criticism of Donald Trump===
[[File:Vicente Fox by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|Fox speaking in Washington, D.C., February 2015]]
Fox has been an outspoken critic of U.S. President [[Donald Trump]], beginning with Trump's bid for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidacy in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]].

In an interview with [[Univision]]'s [[Jorge Ramos (news anchor)|Jorge Ramos]] in February 2016, Fox responded to then-candidate Trump's proposal to [[Trump's border wall|build a wall]] at the border between the United States and Mexico at Mexico's expense,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform|title=Immigration|access-date=6 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929153557/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform|archive-date=29 September 2015}}</ref> declaring in English, "I am not going to pay for that fucking wall. He should pay for it. He's got the money."<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Mexican President to Trump: 'I'm not going to pay for that fucking wall'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4OwJOVi0ec |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/x4OwJOVi0ec| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=21 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Fox went on to call Trump a "crazy guy" and a "false prophet," and questioned the claim that Trump received 44% of the Hispanic vote in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] caucus in Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fusion.net/story/273374/former-mexican-president-to-donald-trump-not-paying-for-that-fucking-wall/|title=Former Mexican President to Donald Trump: 'I'm not going to pay for that fucking wall'|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-date=5 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105181653/http://fusion.net/story/273374/former-mexican-president-to-donald-trump-not-paying-for-that-fucking-wall/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Trump took to Twitter in response, demanding that Fox apologize for using "the F word while discussing the wall."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Jenna |date=2021-11-26 |title=Former Mexican president says he will not pay for Donald Trump's 'f—— wall' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/25/former-mexican-president-says-he-will-not-pay-for-donald-trumps-f-wall/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Fox eventually apologized for the remark, while also asking for Trump to apologize for his remarks about Mexicans and inviting Trump to visit Mexico.<ref name="Apology">{{cite web |date=5 May 2016 |title=Vicente Fox apologizes to Trump for wall outburst |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/vicente-fox-apologizes-trump-222842 |access-date=6 November 2016 |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref>

Despite his apology, Fox continued to criticize Trump to the international media and [[internet troll|troll]] Trump on Twitter, stating, "I'm committed to be Donald Trump's shadow until he is done with politics."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/745678364187426817|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} Fox would later go on to congratulate President-elect [[Joe Biden]] and his victory in the [[2020 United States presidential election]], defeating Trump.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/vicente-fox-bienvenido-presidente-biden-ni-fifis-ni-chairos-ni-color-en-la-piel|title = Vicente Fox. Bienvenido Presidente Biden; ni fifís, ni chairos, ni color en la piel|date = 7 November 2020}}</ref> When Trump visited Mexico on 31 August 2016 upon President [[Enrique Peña Nieto]]'s invitation, Fox slammed the visit, calling it a "desperate move" on the part of Peña Nieto and stating, "He is not welcome in Mexico. We don't like him. We don't want him. We reject his visit."<ref name="Visit">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/politics/vicente-fox-criticizes-trump-nieto-meeting/index.html|title=Former Mexican President apologizes for Trump invitation|first=David |last=Wright|work=CNN|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> Trump responded by pointing out Fox's previous invitation, to which Fox clarified that he invited Trump to Mexico on the condition that he used the visit to apologize to the Mexican people.<ref name="Visit"/> He directly addressed the American people the next day on CNN, where he described Trump as a "false prophet" who is "absolutely crazy" and warned that they need to "wake up" and realize the harm that Trump's immigration and economic policies would inflict on the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/vicente-fox-wake-up-america-227624|title=Vicente Fox on Trump: 'Please wake up, America'|website=[[Politico]] |date=September 2016 |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>

Later in September 2016, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that Fox had received multiple emails from [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|Trump's campaign]] soliciting donations throughout the month.<ref name="Donate">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/26/donald-trump-keeps-asking-foreign-leaders-for-money-the-latest-vicente-fox/|title=Donald Trump keeps asking foreign leaders for money. The latest: Vicente Fox.|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> Fox received the first email on 9 September, which he posted on Twitter and responded, "Donald Trump, I won't pay for that fucking wall! Also, campaigning in Mexico? Running out of money and friends?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/774387133343633408|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} Fox received two additional emails on 24 and 27 September, both of which he also posted on Twitter and mocked as being "desperate" and "begging."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/779728965166518272|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/780814887190540288|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} The revelation of the emails has raised concern, as accepting campaign donations from foreign nationals is illegal in the United States.<ref name="Donate" />

During a September 2016 appearance on the radio show ''El Show de Piolín'', Fox smashed a Trump [[piñata]] hanging on the streets of Los Angeles while loudly singing the traditional Piñata song. Upon breaking it open, Fox noted its lack of contents and remarked, "Empty. Totally Empty. He doesn't have any brains."<ref name="GQ">{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/story/vicente-fox-former-president-mexico-donald-trump-interview|title=Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico, Has a Few Thoughts on Donald Trump|first=Rebecca|last=Nelson|date=19 September 2016}}</ref> Discussing the event during a subsequent interview with ''[[GQ]]'', Fox expanded, "I had such a joy in my heart by doing that, because in Mexico, piñatas are very meaningful. Piñatas are a celebration. Piñatas let you send messages. And the message is: Trump is empty inside. He's empty in his head. That's why I put my hand into his head. There was no brain there. That's what he is, an empty person."<ref name="GQ" />

The day after Trump won the election, Fox wrote an editorial on the ''[[International Business Times]]'' website where he lamented Trump's victory and explored what Mexico could do in response. "Even though Trump is not the prettiest person in the room, we still have to dance with him. Now, we ought to look out for ourselves and find a way to work with the most powerful economy in the world, which is now led by an authoritarian racist[...]Donald Trump's promises have an expiration date. When the time comes to truly deliver to the American people, his "billion dollar show" will finally crumble beneath his feet," Fox wrote, concluding his editorial with, "I find quite sad that America, formerly the most open and cutting edge nation, has chosen to lock itself down inside concrete walls. It's tragic that fear, anger and wrath took over and pierced the hearts of their people. It will be hard to recover from this wound; but we better start working to heal as quickly as possible – and bring down the walls that blinded us in the beginning."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/president-trumps-megalomaniac-ideas-will-run-his-beloved-nation-into-ground-1590598|title=If Trump doesn't want to work with Mexico, it's America's loss|first=Vicente|last=Fox|date=9 November 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Vicente Fox (23848003298).jpg|left|thumb|Fox at an event in Phoenix, Arizona in October 2017 to meet with [[Hispanic Americans]]]]
Fox has continued criticizing Trump on Twitter after the election. In a series of tweets in January 2017, Fox again criticized Trump's proposed Mexican border wall, calling it a "racist monument" and insisted that Mexico will never fund it, calling on Trump to "be honest with US taxpayers" about that fact.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/313122-vicente-fox-to-trump-we-wont-pay-for-that-fken-wall/|title=Vicente Fox to Trump: We won't pay for 'that f----- wall'|first=Brooke|last=Seipel|date=6 January 2017|website=The Hill|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> Following the release of a U.S. government intelligence report that [[2016 United States election interference by Russia|accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election]] to ensure Trump's victory, Fox tweeted, "Sr Trump, the intelligence report is devastating. Losing election by more than 3M votes and in addition this. Are you a legitimate president?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/817502062170738689|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} Fox further criticized Trump's response to the intelligence report, calling him a "bully" and a "bluff" and stating that Trump is "bringing in a new era of dictatorship."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/313803-vicente-fox-trump-a-new-era-of-dictatorship/|title=Vicente Fox: Trump ushering in 'a new era of dictatorship'|first=Mark|last=Hensch|newspaper=The Hill |date=11 January 2017}}</ref> Though on 12 January, Fox broke with his criticism of Trump and simply tweeted, "America Will Survive."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/819650223660236801|title=Vicente Fox Quesada on Twitter}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}}

In an interview with [[Anderson Cooper]] on 25 January 2017, and during an appearance on [[Conan O'Brien]]'s late night talk show on 1 March 2017, Fox again asserted that Mexico should not have to pay for the wall.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cooper|first1=Anderson|title=Vicente Fox: Wall is stupid, waste of money|url=http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/26/vincente-fox-intv-mexico-border-wall-stupid-waste-of-money-sot-ac.cnn|work=CNN|date=26 January 2017 }}</ref>

In September 2017, Fox was once again in the news after President Trump announced he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months if the U.S. congress failed to pass legislation to address the issue.  In response, Fox tweeted to President Trump's Twitter account, "Ending DACA is on the top of the vilest acts you’ve pulled off. You’re destroying the legacy of greater men before you."  In another tweet, Fox suggested that President Trump's DACA decision was a result of him compensating for earlier failures to pass healthcare legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act.  Fox then went on to post a video in which he claimed that President Trump had "failed America" and stated that "[t]his measure is cruel and heartless, worse than any machine. You’re cancelling the future of 800,000 children and young people."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vicente-fox-daca-donald-trump_us_59afd59ae4b0b5e531024aa5|title=Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Tears into Donald Trump Over DACA|date=6 September 2017 |publisher=huffpost.com|access-date=7 September 2017}}</ref>

As Fox frequently uses Twitter (in English) to respond to tweets by President Trump, he has attracted more than 1&nbsp;million followers on his Twitter account.<ref>[https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/926560125082587137 VicenteFoxQue] Twitter 3 November 2017</ref>

Since May 2017, Fox has appeared in a series of humorous videos seriously denouncing Donald Trump, including "Vicente Fox is Running for President of the United States" (fake announcement for the candidacy) which was released in September.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeJLx_Dy_icz3oDHhJeMe9g/search?query=vincente+fox ''YouTube: Super Deluxe''] "Vicente Fox is Running for President of the United States", 7 September 2017.</ref>

===Autobiography===

[[File:Bush Fox Harper.jpg|right|thumb|Fox with US President [[George W. Bush]] and Canadian Prime Minister [[Stephen Harper]] in front of "[[El Castillo, Chichen Itza|El Castillo]]" in Chichén Itzá, March 2006]]

Fox's autobiography, entitled ''Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith and Dreams of a Mexican President'', was released in September 2007.<ref>[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-peppard_0429gl.ART.State.Bulldog.43489d9.html Clock ticking for Allyn on Fox book | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Arts & Entertainment]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041712/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-peppard_0429gl.ART.State.Bulldog.43489d9.html |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref> To promote its release, Fox toured many U.S. cities to do book-signings and interviews with U.S. media. During his tour, however, he faced protests from Mexican immigrants who accused him of actions that forced them to emigrate and find jobs in the United States.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130221015559/http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/403471.html Fox reaparece en Los Ángeles; entre protestas, defiende logros – El Universal – México<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He faced the subject several times during interviews, such as one held with [[Fox News]]'s [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]], who questioned him about the massive illegal immigration problem of Mexicans into the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/former-mexican-president-vicente-fox-debates-immigration-issue-with-bill|work=Fox News Channel|title=Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue with Bill|date=10 October 2007}}</ref> Finally, during an interview with [[Telemundo]]'s Rubén Luengas, the interviewer asked Fox about allegations concerning some properties of Vicente Fox's wife, [[Marta Sahagún de Fox|Marta Sahagún]]. After Fox explained the situation, he asked the interviewer not to make false accusations and to prove what he was saying. Luengas said, "I'm telling you in your face, I'm not a liar." After this, Fox walked out of the studio, calling the interviewer a "liar," "vulgar," and "stupid."<ref>[http://www.telemundo52.com/noticias/14359845/detail.html Entrevista con Vicente Fox causa polémica – Noticias – KVEA Los Angeles<!-- Bot generated title -->]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716203534/http://www.telemundo52.com/noticias/14359845/detail.html |date=16 July 2011 }}</ref>

Upon the book's release, some readers viewed several excerpts as being highly critical of U.S. President [[George W. Bush]], considered by many to be a close friend.  For example, Fox wrote that Bush was "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life," and claimed that he was surprised that Bush had ever made it to the White House.  Later, in an interview with [[Larry King]], Fox explained that this was a misunderstanding and that what he meant by calling George W. Bush "cocky" was to say he was "confident."<ref>[http://www.laopinion.com/primerapagina/?rkey=00000000000002503550 Polémica por gira de Fox<!-- Bot generated title -->]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022084351/http://www.laopinion.com/primerapagina/?rkey=00000000000002503550 |date=22 October 2007 }}</ref> Fox also referred to Bush in his autobiography as a "windshield cowboy," due to Bush's apparent fear of a horse Fox offered him to ride.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.correntewire.com/vicente_fox_bush_a_windshield_cowboy_whos_scared_of_horses|title=Vicente Fox: Bush a "windshield cowboy" who's scared of horses – Corrente|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-date=19 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219035051/http://www.correntewire.com/vicente_fox_bush_a_windshield_cowboy_whos_scared_of_horses|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum===
{{Update|date=January 2017}}
:''See: [[Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum]]''
On 12 January 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://busquedas.gruporeforma.com/utilerias/imdservicios3W.DLL?JSearchformatSP&file=elnortecom/2007/nacional/articulo/707623/default.htm&palabra=biblioteca|title=Login Grupo Reforma|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> over a month after he left office, Fox announced the construction of a center of studies, library and museum that was labeled by the U.S. press as Mexico's first presidential library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070426-9999-7m26fox.html|title=SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico – Fox gets award for reform in Mexico|date=n.d.|website=signonsandiego.com|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref><ref>[http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070413_1.html Centrofox.org.mx]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031934/http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070413_1.html |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA040107.24A.Fox_today.3698155.html MySA.com: Metro | State]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111835/http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA040107.24A.Fox_today.3698155.html |date=29 September 2007 }}</ref> The project will be a library, museum, a center for the advancement of democracy, a study center and a hotel, and it will be completely privately funded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://busquedas.gruporeforma.com/utilerias/imdservicios3W.DLL?JSearchformatSP&file=elnortecom/2007/nacional/articulo/707855/default.htm&palabra=biblioteca&siteelnorte|title=Login Grupo Reforma|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://busquedas.gruporeforma.com/utilerias/imdservicios3W.DLL?JSearchformatSP&file=elnortecom/2007/nacional/articulo/708051/default.htm&palabra=Fox&siteelnorte|title=Login Grupo Reforma|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> It is expected to be a genuine U.S.-style presidential library. It will be built in Fox's home state of [[Guanajuato]], in his home town of [[San Francisco del Rincón]].

While museums are abundant throughout the country, there is nothing comparable to a presidential library where personal documents, records, and gifts amassed by the country's leader are open to the public.  Fox's library will be modeled after the [[Clinton Presidential Center|Bill Clinton Library]] in [[Little Rock]], Arkansas,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070218/news_1n18fox.html|title=Fox looks to cement his place in history – The San Diego Union-Tribune|date=n.d.|website=signonsandiego.com|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> which, according to the former president, will allow Mexicans to enjoy, for the first time in Mexico's history, a library in which to review the documents, images and records that made up his six years as president.<ref>[http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070129.html]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012172153/http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070129.html|date=12 October 2007}}</ref>

According to the official website, the construction of the center is in progress and advancing.<ref>[http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070413_1.html Fox Center]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031934/http://centrofox.org.mx/cebm_c070413_1.html |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> Final completion of the library was expected by late 2007.

In 2015, Fox was interviewed by Peter High for Forbes at the library, which is called "''Centro Fox''" (the Fox Center).  During the interview, Fox remarked that the guiding principle behind the library is that "[w]e are a Latin American center that is geared around ideas, leadership, and strategies. We do it through, number one, young kids. The middle-upper class and the rest have access to the best universities. But the broader constituency does not receive any messages or aspirations of happiness in life at home."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2015/01/12/former-mexican-president-vicente-fox-pushes-mexico-to-become-technology-hub/ |title=Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, Pushes Mexico To Become Technology Hub|website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=7 September 2017 }}</ref>

In addition to the library's completion, there has been some indications that Centro Fox was joining hands with UST Global to transform Mexico into a world-class technological economy.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article3649640.ece | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=UST Global in pact with Centro Fox of Mexico | date=18 July 2012}}</ref> Fox stated in a press release that "UST Global is partnering Centro Fox to help accomplish nothing less than the transformation of my country into a world-class technology economy . . . . Together, we will establish Mexico at the forefront of the information technology revolution in the region."  These efforts appear to be ongoing.

===Centrist Democratic International===
On 20 September 2007, Fox was elected co-president of the [[Centrist Democrat International|Centrist Democratic International]] (along with the re-elected [[Pier Ferdinando Casini]]) at its leaders' meeting in Rome. The CDI is the international organization of political parties that counts Fox's party, the [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]], as a member.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.cdi-idc.org/news/newsdetail.php?hoofdmenuID=4&newsID=15&submenuID=49&PHPSESSID=809252cb4f10b72aeb8bcc2da4450cdd Portail d'informations Ce site est en vente!<!-- Bot generated title -->]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725151403/http://www.cdi-idc.org/news/newsdetail.php?hoofdmenuID=4&newsID=15&submenuID=49&PHPSESSID=809252cb4f10b72aeb8bcc2da4450cdd |date=25 July 2011 }}</ref>

===Statue controversy===

[[File:Vicente fox quesada estatua solo.JPG|thumb|upright|Statue of Vicente Fox in [[Boca del Río, Veracruz|Boca del Río]], Veracruz]]
In October 2007, an announcement was made in the municipality of [[Boca del Río, Veracruz|Boca del Río]], Veracruz, that a 3-meter (10&nbsp;ft) statue of Vicente Fox was to be erected to honor the former president. This aroused criticism from the opposition [[Party of the Democratic Revolution]] towards Boca del Río's mayor, who was affiliated with the same political party (PAN) as Fox.

The statue was put in place amidst protests on the dawn of 13 October 2007. The inauguration was to have been held on 14 October. Some hours after the statue was erected, a crowd of about 100 people (many of whom were members of the PRI, the political party opposed to Fox and which Fox had defeated in the 2000 election) brought the statue down by putting a rope around the statue's neck and pulling it down, damaging it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protestors-tear-down-vicente-fox-statue/|title=Protestors Tear Down Vicente Fox Statue|work=CBS News|date=14 October 2007 |access-date=7 September 2017}}</ref> The statue was put back in place for the inauguration, then taken away for repairs.<ref>[http://www.laprensalatina.com/?p=579 La Prensa Latina » Blog Archive » Derriban estatua de Vicente Fox<!-- Bot generated title -->]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604102336/http://www.laprensalatina.com/?p=579 |date=4 June 2008 }}</ref>

PAN members accused [[Veracruz]]'s governor, [[Fidel Herrera Beltrán]], of "ordering the attack on the statue," and Fox called the governor intolerant. Others in the media argued that the installation of the statue was inappropriate, since former President Fox was facing allegations relating to an illicit enrichment scandal at the time.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

===Health===
On 7 August 2021, it was reported and confirmed that Vicente Fox and his wife Martha Sahagún were preventively admitted to a hospital in León, Guanajuato after being infected with [[COVID-19]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico|pandemic in Mexico]], but without serious symptoms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mexico.as.com/mexico/2021/08/08/actualidad/1628382596_202932.html|title=Vicente Fox y Martha Sahagún, hospitalizados por Covid-19|publisher=AS|date=7 August 2021|first=Adriana|last=Pacheco}}</ref>

===2023 xenophobia controversy===
Fox stirred controversy in July 2023 when he shared an image on his [[Twitter]] account criticizing some of the [[Morena (political party)|Morena]] contenders for the [[2024 Mexican general election|2024 presidential elections]] and supporting the PAN pre-candidate [[Xóchitl Gálvez]]. The image, which made reference to the contenders' ancestries, read: "[[Claudia Sheinbaum|Sheinbaum]] is a [[Bulgarian Jewry|Bulgarian Jew]], [[Marcelo Ebrard|Marcelo]] is a [[French people|French]] ''[[wiktionary:fifí|fifí]]'', [[Gerardo Fernández Noroña|Noroña]] is an alien and [[Adán Augusto López Hernández|Adán Augusto]] is from [[Transylvania]]. The only one who's Mexican is Xóchitl!".<ref>{{cite news |last1=López-Castro |first1=Fernanda |title=Vicente Fox llama 'judía búlgara' a Sheinbaum y en redes lo critican: "Xenófobo y antisemita" |url=https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2023/07/21/vicente-fox-llama-judia-bulgara-a-sheinbaum-y-en-redes-lo-critican-xenofobo-y-antisemita/ |access-date=26 August 2023 |work=Infobae |date=21 July 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref> Fox was immediately criticized and accused of being [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] and xenophobic by social media users and politicians, even from those belonging to the PAN and the opposition to Morena, who noted that the former President himself was of [[Germans|German]] and [[Spaniards|Spanish]] ancestry. Eventually Xóchitl Gálvez herself condemned the tweet.<ref>{{cite news |last1=López-Castro |first1=Fernanda |title=Xóchitl Gálvez condena tuit de Fox sobre expresiones xenófobas contra Sheinbaum |url=https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2023/07/22/xochitl-galvez-condena-tuit-de-fox-sobre-expresiones-xenofobas-contra-sheinbaum/ |access-date=26 August 2023 |work=Infobae |date=22 July 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref> Fox later deleted the image and on July 23 he apologized to the [[History of the Jews in Mexico|Jewish community]], stating that he had not created the image and had merely retweeted it, and affirming that he had a "profound respect for the Jewish community".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Molina |first1=Metztli |title=Fox se disculpa con la comunidad judía tras difundir mensaje antisemita contra "corcholatas" |url=https://www.debate.com.mx/politica/Fox-se-disculpa-con-la-comunidad-judia-tras-difundir-mensaje-antisemita-contra-corcholatas-20230723-0054.html |access-date=26 August 2023 |work=Debate |date=23 July 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref>