Vicente Fox Won’t Stop Telling Americans What to Do

Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall

Now that Vicente Fox is no longer president of Mexico, he’s more mobile, because constitutionally the President of Mexico can't leave the country without Congress's permission.

He’s definitely a man on the move. It's hard to keep up with him as he jets from speech to speech.

On November 17th, in “sanctuary city” Durham, NC, Fox received a standing ovation for a speech in which he called on us to build "bridges not walls."

After that he flew across the pond and met with the Club de Madrid, in Spain on November 19th and the 20th and then flew back across the Atlantic and wound up in California, where he bashed the border wall, endorsed Hillary (not for the first time) and expressed his disapproval of the U.S. immigration debate.

On Nov. 26th he was in Washington, D.C. to sign an agreement with the Woodrow Wilson Center. And on Nov. 29th he was in Virginia to meet with the U.S. branch of the Fox Center Consultative Council. (Fox has opened Mexico's first Presidential Library.)

In the old days, Mexican presidents tended to keep a low profile, often electing to enjoy their loot outside of Mexico. Fox, however, is changing the role of a former Mexican president by aspiring to become a jet-setting world statesman, along the lines of Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev or U2’s Bono. The kind of guy who never shuts up, in other words.