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‘VIVA USA! VIVA
MEXICO!’
Mexico is the promised land for recycling, thanks in part to its fast-
growing automotive industry, proclaim major Mexican recyclers
attending this year’s ISRI show.
Fox led Mexico from 2000 to 2006.
Before that he built an impressive
career within the Coca-Cola company.
‘It was never my plan to become presi-
dent or a politician,’ he told the confer-
ence. ‘I was in search of happiness by
doing things to help others. So by
searching for happiness, I moved from
business into politics.’
Some say as a politician he was contro-
versial. Certainly, he’s an interesting
figure with a sense of humour: ‘I didn’t
cross a wall this time to get to the
United States – it looks like we’re
improving our relationship,’ Fox joked
during his opening remarks.
The importance of a good trading rela-
tion between Mexico and the US was
underlined in Nashville by a special
guest and key note speaker: Mexico’s
former president Vincente Fox.
Former presi-
dent of Mexico
Vincente Fox.
A U T H O R / P H O T O S Martijn Reintjes
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