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Exclusive: Fox Drops the 'F-Bomb' on the Wall Again

In an interview with Newsweek, the former president shares his views on Mexico’s presidential elections, the “f****n wall” and Trump.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox gestures while speaking during an interview with AFP at the Fox Center in San Francisco del Rincon, Guanajuato state, Mexico on March 8, 2016.
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Vicente Fox “jumped the wall” to come here, he joked to the crowd. It was May 14, and the former president of Mexico was onstage at Cipriani, a restaurant and venue in downtown New York, where he had just received a Webby Award for best internet personality in film and video.

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These days, Fox is a celebrity, not just in Mexico but increasingly in America. And his Cipriani speech captured why. Since early 2016, when Donald

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