Article: Fox's status as an outsider undermines his effectiveness.(President of Mexico Vicente Fox)

MEXICO CITY -- During campaigns, presidential candidates often tout their credentials as outsiders, using that status as evidence that they will represent the people's will and not the ruling elite. But like many of these outsiders, President Vicente Fox is finding that he must chose between dealing with the entrenched interests he campaigned against or risk sacrificing his agenda.

Having successfully campaigned as an independent voice who would not be beholden to the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) that ruled Mexico for 70 years, Fox finds himself with few reliable allies as he tries to push a very ambitious agenda. His own National Action Party (PAN) is ...

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