Carlos Slim Pleaded to AMLO for Help. He Was Frozen Out Instead
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They made quite the odd couple in Mexico: the world-famous billionaire and the rising leftist politician. For years, they teamed up on projects and spoke nicely of one another in public.
But just as the politician, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was preparing to move into the presidential palace late last year, his relationship with the billionaire, Carlos Slim, suddenly soured. Mexico’s richest man didn’t join the president’s business advisory board and AMLO, as the leader is known, began taking shots at one of Slim’s companies.