Politics & Power Quote by Vicente Fox

Freedom here isn’t treated as a constitutional abstraction; it’s staged as a public performance. Vicente Fox locates liberty “in the squares and streets,” then in “the daily work of the communications media,” and finally in the “open relationship” between rulers and citizens. That progression matters. He’s mapping a democracy you can see, hear, and bump into: protest in the plaza, journalism in the newsroom, accountability in the halls of government. It’s a portrait aimed less at political theorists than at ordinary people asked to believe that the system has changed.

The context does a lot of the heavy lifting. Fox governed Mexico after the PRI’s long one-party dominance, at a moment when “transition” was the national keyword and legitimacy had to be re-earned in public. So he defines freedom not by lofty rights-language but by civic textures: open air, open press, open government. It’s aspirational and defensive at once. By insisting freedom is already “alive,” he’s both celebrating a break with authoritarian habits and trying to foreclose skepticism about how deep that break really runs.

The subtext is a careful bit of political branding. “Communications media” isn’t just about journalists; it’s about a new ecosystem of scrutiny that can validate a new leadership. “Governing and the governed” frames politics as a relationship, not a hierarchy, signaling a shift from patronage and closed-door deals toward visibility. The line works because it turns democracy into a lived environment. If freedom is in the street, any attempt to suppress it looks not merely anti-policy, but anti-life.