Vicente Fox on Larry King about NAFTA, NAU currency and spoilsport Chavez

[CGowen]

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[1932]

1. Huh? He clearly doesn't want a single currency (which would divert money from

currency traders and investors who make a lot of money on hot money flowing in and out of developing countries) and rather than talk about that, he tries to turn the question into one about Chavez interfering with the creation of a business-friendly free trade zone?

This guy was an executive at Coca Cola before he was president, right?

[BeliQueen]

4. Yes, he was.

And when he was on the Daily Show there were plants in the audience to cheer him on because normally Jon's audience would have shut him down.

It was bizarre to hear Fox sneer at the president of Bolivia because he speaks a dialect of Spanish because he is indigenous and deride his socialist policies as "giving away the fish."

If NAFTA is so wonderful for the general society, then where is the growing middle class in Mexico? It's been over 8 years--why hasn't their economy exploded by now?

[farmhand]

2. He doesn't know what he's doing

Nothing is Mexico is going to ever change until this guy breaks up the state run monopolies like PeMex and the Telephono company, nobody is going to be able to afford shit. Last time I was in Mexico it costs me 8 bucks a minute to use a cell phone, what a ripoff! The Mexican government is so corrupt and I haven't seen Fox do anything about it.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. Privatizing state-run assets is always the first step into ruining

the lives of the people in latin america. Check out the the Shock Doctrine.

[farmhand]

5. Breaking up AT&T did result in lower prices

Well I am sorry but 8 bucks a minute is outrageous and this is from a state run agency. Breaking up AT&T in the U.S. did result in much lower prices for telco. Look at all the choices we have now. Mexico really needs to modernize and thats not going to happen under a monopoly. Surely you must agree that monopolies are bad?