Centro Fox Closes After 18 Years — Hacienda San Cristóbal Ceded to US University for 100 Years

The Centro Fox presidential library, museum, and leadership-training complex at Hacienda San Cristóbal in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato, concludes 18 years of operations. Vicente Fox transfers the roughly $20 million USD facility to Universidad Incarnate Word (UIW), a Catholic private university based in San Antonio, Texas, under a 100-year comodato agreement; UIW inaugurates its new Mexican campus at the site the same week. Fox states: 'El Centro Fox cumplió su misión. Hoy inicia un nuevo capítulo con la llegada de la Universidad Incarnate Word.' Launched in 2007 to preserve presidential history and train civic leaders, the center's closure marks a symbolic end-of-cycle moment for Fox's post-presidential legacy project, sited at the same ranch that hosted the landmark February 2001 Fox-Bush immigration summit.