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Article: Carlos Slim Helu.(Worldbeaters)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Job: Multi-tasking Mexican business leader
Reputation: Family man; thrifty and clever capitalist; Mexican nationalist when it suits his purposes.
CARLOS Slim is a man with a mission. The Mexican tycoon is already Latin America's richest person with a net worth of more than $14 billion, according to Forbes magazine. The grey-bearded, swashbuckling 63-year-old controls a dizzying array of companies across Latin America. And now he is looking north. In recent years he's snapped up the ailing US internet provider, Prodigy, as well as CompUSA, the Dallas-based, big-box computer retailer.
It is fair to say that the average Mexican would have ...