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13. For Vicente Fox the rise of "fear and false prophets" isn't limited to Donald Trump.
Sun Sep 3, 2017, 07:13 PM
Sep 2017

On Bernie Sanders, Vicente Fox told Mother Jones:

In Latin America, we have a century of experience of suffering from messianic, populist leaders that have broken our economies, that have brought poverty into all of Latin America,” he said in response to a question about Sanders during an interview with Mother Jones this week. “Yes, I’m talking here about the Hugo Chávezes, the Evo Moraleses, the Kirchners in Argentina, the Peróns in Argentina, and so many of those populists that we’ve had in Latin America...

I want to shout loud and clear, wake up America, wake up America,” Fox said in the interview. “These are two false prophets that are going to take you to the desert. They are going to take you nowhere. So for the first time now, Latin America can speak with the voice of experience. We have experienced the Bernie Sanders, many of them throughout Latin America. We have experienced the Trumps, many throughout Latin America in the 20th century. So please, America, don’t listen to these false prophets.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/former-president-mexico-vicente-fox-bernie-sanders-hugo-chavez/

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