Monday, June 18, 2007

Less show, more grind for Mexico's quiet president

(Reuters) - Happier shut in his office banging away at his laptop than
out waving at crowds, the quiet, diminutive lawyer is cut from
completely different cloth than brawny ex-president Vicente
Fox, with his chatty radio shows and showy cowboy boots.




Conservative Calderon, of the same party as Fox, won last
year's election by a razor-thin margin but surprised many by
acting where Fox often failed to. Calderon won a pension reform
in March and deployed the army against drug gangs.


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