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Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

By Emily SchmallMar 13th 2010 – 11:05AM
AP

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MEXICO CITY (March 13) -- How does a country battered by a lethal drug war and the worst recession since the 1930s react when one of its own, Carlos Slim Helu, is deemed by Forbes magazine to be the world's richest person? In a word, mixed. "There's no way for a country with so many poor to have the world's richest man...

Background on Telmex

Telmex (, , , ) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Mexico City that provides telecommunications products and services in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil (Embratel) and other countries in Latin America.Telmex is still the dominant fixed-line phone carrier in Mexico.

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