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Article: Mexico's Never Seen a Race Like This.
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- June 26, 2000
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The year was 1964, and Vicente Fox Quesada was driving around Mexico selling Coca-Cola. One of 11 children born to a rancher and his Spanish wife, he had nearly completed a business degree, but the sales job was going so well that he left the university instead of finishing his thesis. In Mexico City, meanwhile, Francisco Labastida Ochoa was working in the Finance Ministry while pursuing an economics degree. The young analyst, whose grandfather helped write the Constitution in 1917, had recently married. Both men were 22. Over the next two decades, they would rise to the top of their very different fields: one as a businessman, the other as a politician in the world's most ...
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