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...Smart reads (Alleged) fertiliser fraud Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a close confidante of Mexico’s president, became the country’s second-richest man thanks to his broadcasting empire....
...After paying his respects to his favourite US president, he will visit a statue in the US capital of his political hero, 19th-century Mexican president Benito Juárez....
...By this he mostly means the cosy political and business elites under a line of presidents that began with Carlos Salinas, whose administration ended in financial collapse and the 1994-95 Tequila Crisis that...
...“I will be like Benito Juárez . . . a man of the nation.”...
...Philip van Doren, a cold and charmless pragmatist, and Víctor, Ignacio’s equally unprincipled brother-in-law, could both walk straight off the pages of a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, the great realist chronicler...
...The rest is accounted for mainly by Azteca, which is controlled by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, another of the country’s dozen or so billionaires....
...But there was always time to idle and think and read – to sit under the lemon tree in the patio absorbing poetry by Lorca and Salinas, the novels of Pérez Galdós and Sénder, and the bracing but untortured...
...“This is a fundamental instrument, if we want greater competition in this market,” said Eduardo Pérez Motta, director-general of the CFC. “The 1,900MHz spectrum is all that's left....
...Benito Sol?s, general director for Moody's in Mexico, says: "When I talk to foreigners, the perception they have of Mexico is much more positive than the Mexicans....
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