Mexico’s Telephone Titan
Is the business empire of one of the richest men in the world about to lose its gloss?
Illustration by Vicente Martí
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He’s tied with Bill Gates for the title of the richest man on the planet. Carlos Slim Helú is perhaps the most famous—or infamous—man in Mexico. Yet few Americans have heard of him, let alone have much idea about the nature of his corporate empire, or how he created it.
For a portrait of this portly, 70-year-old son of Lebanese immigrants, there are a variety of popular opinions to draw from. On the one hand he’s the brilliant businessman and telephone tycoon poised to eclipse Gates on the Forbes list of the world’s most wealthy. Others see him as an opportunistic robber baron and crass monopolist who made his fortune thanks to political favors and weak government regulation. Lately, he has re-tooled his image, highlighting his humble immigrant roots and supposedly modest lifestyle, while also posing as a philanthropist alongside celebrities, from Bill Clinton to Colombian pop singer Shakira and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus.
Measuring the reach of his business interests is no easy task. He is said to own as many as 220 companies. Despite his reputation for micro-managing it’s likely even he doesn’t known the full extent of his holdings. But today, the very size of his empire may have become his biggest problem, placing his operations under an intense glare. In a country where 40 percent of the people live in poverty and thousands emigrate each year to look for better-paying jobs in the U.S., Slim has become a symbol of how economic growth is being held back by a lack of competition.
“He’s proven himself to be one the smartest businessmen in Mexico’s entire history,” says Eduardo Garcia, editor of Mexican magazine Sentido Común, which monitors Slim’s fortune and regularly updates the public. “It’s just that he has too much power for the good of the country.”
To Slim’s 218,000 employees he is known simply as El ingeniero, an old-fashioned Latin American title
meaning, literally, “engineer,” commonly used to show respect for the elite of university graduates. To others he is Don Carlos. In government circles he’s known as Señor PIB, or Mr. GDP (Gross Domestic Product), a reference to the awe his name arouses in the minds of officials when they consider the extraordinary economic weight of his companies, which account for more than a third of the capitalization on the Mexican stock exchange.
The foundation of his empire is the phone company Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico) which he bought in 1990, and which owns 80 percent of the country’s 18.2 million fixed phone lines. Slim also controls Telcel, a unit of his América Móvil network, which has about 74 percent of the country’s 64.6 million mobile users and is the world’s fifth-largest cellphone company with 124 million customers in 15 countries. In the United States, he controls Tracfone, a pre-paid cellphone company that claims 12.4 million customers.
His major Mexican holdings, Inbursa Financial Group and the Carso Group, cover a mind-boggling range of services from banking to construction, hotels, mining, oil drilling, highways, healthcare, a low-cost airline, a cigarette manufacturer, and much valuable real estate in the heart of Mexico City’s colonial downtown.
Beyond Mexico, his telecom investments stretch the length and breadth of the Americas. The Slim family is also Saks’ biggest shareholder, with 17.4 percent of the U.S. company’s shares. He also held a major stake in now-bankrupt Circuit City, as well as the telecom giant Global Crossing, and a 1 percent stake in Citigroup.
In 2008, Slim purchased stock that gave him a 6.9 percent ownership stake in The New York Times Company. Last year he helped bail out the struggling newspaper with a $250 million loan, giving Slim 15.9 million shares and making him the company’s largest creditor, as well as one of its largest stockholders.
As his wealth rises and he attracts more international attention, Slim has poured billions into a previously neglected aspect of his businesses: corporate social responsibility. “There is tremendous social pressure to give back to the country that has given him so much,” Garcia says.
In 2007 he announced plans to pump one-fifth of his fortune into philanthropy. Various charities, mostly cultural, educational or health-oriented, have benefited. He created his own healthcare foundation while also pouring money into the restoration and redevelopment of the old colonial center of Mexico City, as well as making large donations to the Clinton Global Initiative and to the Alas Foundation, created by Shakira. That has won him favorable press in many quarters.
However, his critics remain unconvinced. “It all looks like a deliberate PR strategy to bolster his public image,” says Denise Dresser, a leading political scientist at the prestigious Autonomous Mexican Institute of Technology (ITAM). Slim barely hides his disdain for charity, she notes, highlighting comments he made to The New Yorker magazine last year. “I don’t believe in charities too much,” he was quoted as saying. “They can make you popular... but you don’t solve any problems.”
Slim has also publicly scoffed at Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for “going around like Santa Claus” trying to cure society’s ills. “Poverty isn’t solved with donations,” he said at the unveiling of his own $450 million foundation for health research and care. Building businesses and creating jobs is his preferred solution.
“One must take him at his word,” says Dresser. “His incursion into the world of philanthropy pretty much espouses that view.”
But, others say Slim’s philanthropy owes at least part of its origins to the 1999 death of his wife, Soumaya Domit de Slim from kidney disease. He quietly began funding hospitals and a kidney transplant center. That evolved into educational scholarships through the Telmex Foundation. “I think Mr Slim’s philanthropy is in large part a personal decision that has opened his eyes to new horizons,” says Jorge Villalobos, 59, director of the Mexican Center for Philanthropy.
He hopes that Slim’s example could help build a stronger culture of giving in Mexico, which has a huge equality gap, yet only a fraction of the charities in the U.S. For centuries Mexicans have looked to the Roman Catholic Church as the fount of all charity, and civil society has only emerged more recently as an alternative.
Mexico also has no estate tax, so there is no incentive to divest large fortunes to charity, making Slim’s generosity all the more notable. “In the end Mr. Slim’s motives aren’t what’s important,” said Villalobos. “What matters more is that he is putting it into practice, which enriches everyone.”
To be sure, Slim’s new philanthropic push comes in the wake of a number of recent reports that pointed an embarrassing finger at the lack of competition and anti-trust legislation in Mexico. Slim defends himself saying his companies are no different than other big corporations such as Microsoft, Walmart, and Boeing who also dominate competitors in their markets.
But analysts roll their eyes at the very suggestion that there is any similarity between the competitive business climate in Mexico and the U.S. They point to the 1990 sale of Telmex, a former state monopoly. Critics say Slim acquired the prized franchise under dubious circumstances. Since then he has grown Telmex using what many consider to be unfair trading practices, with the protection of the Mexican government, effectively turning what was once the state’s monopoly into a private one.
Last year the World Bank published a book, No Growth without Equity?, warning that special interest groups in Mexico enjoyed a quasi-monopoly over key economic areas such as telecommunications and the oil and gas industry, and were an obstacle to creating a more efficient and productive economy. Furthermore, those groups had deliberately frustrated attempts to introduce competition, the book claimed, by exercising undue influence over Mexico’s weak government institutions.
2010-02-11 01:36:40
not very hard to see that senorita Fox Bailey is either not in Mexican and has only visited Cabo SanLucas, for vacation (Las Ventanas al Paraiso?) or is a member of the Fox presidential family who kept Mr Slim's monopolic empire intact and built the presidential library with his money. Yes, Telmex is a Mexican company given to Slim by Carlos Salinas de Gortari. X.
2010-02-17 23:53:38
You are a pathetic blogger. You just cut and paste from internet sites that were published 2 or 3 years ago. Everybody has heard about Mr. Slim, it seems that you are the only one who didn't hear about him until now. Again, pathetic.
2010-02-17 23:59:30
Oh, I see, David Adams, no wonder. Jewish, I can see why he is mad at Slim being of Lebanese origin. Even worse journalism.
2010-02-18 09:36:38
Again??? This article is recycled from last week, or two weeks ago.... This writer really needs his 15 minutes of fame... Isn't it?
2010-02-18 10:01:50
There are big errors here (non professional writer, I'm sure). Slim didn't own Circuit City but CompUSA. Salinas Pliego owned Circuit City. Erik is right, why don't you write about Mr. Bernie Madoff??? He is really the corrupt archetypal of the United States that they don't want anyone to know they exist, but they do exist. He is a real corrupt usurer, Slim is not.
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wtf slim its a corrupt one that why he made his money, sonora si with governor padres from sonora they are going to build a canal or something to take the waater from cd. obregon to hermosillo. leaving out of water cd. obregon, in the 80s he used to work at a stock market company with a salary but salinas made him rich.. now he want to take the water from cs.obregon sonora to hermosillo sonora with the governor from sonora padres buying people killing people he doesnt care wtf he made his money from the corruption from mexico
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