Ok, so Calderón won by… what, 230,000 out of 41 million votes? That’s strange, that’s incredible. And, if you think he might not have been legitimately elected, you’re not alone.
Now… for a real kicker… what if Vicente Fox is really a…. GRINGO?
Chente and Martita are going to be heading back to their little ranchito in Guanjuanto soon… though some of their neighbors might not be so glad to see them. It seems one of the neighbors, researching a lawsuit, stumbled across some documents from 1940, where José Luis Fox Pont, Chente’s dear old dad, swore he was a United States citizen. Everybody knows Fox’s mom was a Basque, and you have to have at least ONE Mexican parent if you’re going to be President, so this could be a real problem.
But, wait… it’s Mexico. It gets weirder. The story about the Don José Luis’ deposition appeared August 30. September 1, dead old dad’s birth certificate just happened to surface, showing he was born in Iraputo, but his parents “maintain their North American citizenship”… meaning?
According to the powers that be… Vincente Fox is the son of a Mexican … though, some of his neighbors think he’s a hijo de… something else.
Just as well. Would TEJPF have to oversee re-running the 2000 election?… or would Mexico resolve the problem the way they resolved it last time a foreigner claimed (erroneously) to run Mexiico? You know, that nice Max Habsburg… the guy that inspired Eduard Manet…
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A Mexican President of the U.S.? « The Mex Files // 23 July 2007 at 11:34 am |
[...] born) until recently. In Mexico, where the President must have a Mexican-born father, there were questions about Vincente Fox’s elgibility for office, too (Fox’s grandfather was an American, and his father once claimed U.S. citizenship when [...]
Birthers, Mexican style « The Mex Files // 4 August 2009 at 6:02 am |
[...] It used to be a requirement that both of a Mexican president’s parents had been born in Mexico, but the law was changed to only require one parent to be Mexican born just in time for Fox (whose mother was born in Spain) to run. When the questions about Vicente Fox’s father’s citizenship were first raised, it was a lot of fun (in an academic way) but not taken seriously by anyone. [...]