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Tycoons, telecoms and Trotsky: book lifts veil on Carlos Slim
November 15, 2015 by creative · Leave a Comment
Carlos Slim's brother interrogated leftist rebels for Mexico's intelligence agency while his eldest son often hands out a biographical novel about Leon Trotsky as a gift, according to a new book on the tycoon who was long the world's richest man. The biography, by far the most comprehensive written on Slim, seeks to show how the Mexico City businessman navigated local politics to become the world's richest man in a country where almost half …
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Tycoons, telecoms and Trotsky: book lifts veil on Carlos Slim