Ex-President Fox to get his own show on Mexican TV

Starting in June, former President Vicente Fox will have a weekly primetime program on Mexico’s Milenio TV, the network’s directorgeneral said.

“Fox Populi” will on Tuesday nights, Carlos Marin said.

The program will feature Fox and Milenio analysts discussing national and international issues.

In an appearance Monday night on Marin’s talk show, Fox said his experience lecturing at foreign universities has allowed him to compare the situation in Mexico with that in other countries.

Fox, who governed from 20002006, was full of praise for Mexico’s young people, describing the post1990 generation as “awake and ready to do good things.”

Marin pointed out that since leaving the presidency, Fox has become a “pioneer” in calling for marijuana decriminalization in Mexico.

Fox, who won election under the banner of the conservative National Action Party, said he would be capable of “sitting down with those (drug) cartels to see how we work it out that they stop killing each other, stop killing our young people.”

“What do you lose by doing that? Nothing. And you could gain a lot,” he said.

Under Fox’s successor, Felipe Calderon, Mexico embarked on a militarized drug war that has resulted in more than 130,000 deaths while doing little or nothing to curb the trade in controlled substances.

Fox has been in the news lately for his outspoken criticisms of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has proposed building a wall to stop Mexicans from entering the U.S. and vowed to force Mexico to pay for the border barrier.

Likening Trump to Hitler, Fox said on U.S. television that he would not pay “for that fing wall,” though he subsequently apologized to the billionaire for his choice of words.