He made ends meet by doing p.r. and political work but focused in the mid-1990s on land use and met Fox, who was running political campaigns in Massachusetts.
She gestures across the Ribble Valley where a fuzzy sun is rising above the hilltops, tinting the land in olive greens, fox-fur oranges and chestnut browns.
Should the Ochoa case become a federal one, as it may do if soldiers are accused, it will land on the desk of Mr Fox's attorney-general, Rafael Macedo de la Concha.