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Vicente Fox

(AP/Wide World Photos)

In the Mexican presidential election of 2000, voters forcefully ousted the ruling party, which had been in power for more than 70 years, to usher in reformer Vicente Fox. Fox, 61, became the first president who didn't belong to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He won the presidency at the head of a coalition ticket that united his pro-business party with the Green Party behind a pledge to stamp out corruption and cronyism.