Vicente Fox: ‘People need to be given training, not money so they can just lie around’

Twenty-six years after his victory as Mexico's first opposition-party president, Vicente Fox reflects on that era with nostalgia. Per El País, the eighty-four-year-old is critical of the institutional erosion under subsequent presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum. Fox recently witnessed Keiko Fujimori's swearing-in in Peru and appears enthused about the regional rise of right-wing governments. He explains the trend straightforwardly: after populist administrations fail to deliver, voters reject them.

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