From the Archives...

"In June 2001, the Milenio Diario daily newspaper revealed that Mexican president Vincente Fox, who was elected on an anticorruption platform, had furnished the Los Pinos presidential palace with specially embroidered bath towels that cost $400 apiece. But they're just a tiny part of the more than $400,000 worth of household items that Fox purchased during his first six months in office. (The minimum wage in Mexico, where 40 million people live in poverty, is about $4.50 a day.) President Fox admitted to the expenditures and even praised their disclosure by Milenio, citing the article as "evidence of progress in bringing transparency to government spending."

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