Adios, Presidente

A look back at six unremarkable years of Vicente Fox

David Agren | December 4, 2006

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span class="c1">. Despite running on an agenda of change, much of the old Mexico he promised to banish stubbornly persists, perhaps nowhere more visibly than in Oaxaca, where a teachers' strike descended into a battle between disgruntled leftists and the state's corrupt PRI governor. Inaction, a failure to broker deals with a divided Congress and a tendency to avoid conflict will no doubt go down as some of his biggest shortcomings. But many of Fox's problems stemmed from the high expectations created by his presidential campaign. o:p> /o:p> /span> /p> p> "He was an imprudent president incapable of biting his tongue, ” said Marco Antonio Cortes, director of the political science department at the University of Guadalajara. o:p> /o:p> /p> p> o:p> /o:p>