Carlos Slim. Diego Osorno

      This English-language edition published by Verso 2019

      Originally published in Spanish as Slim: Retrato del hombre más rico del mundo

      © Diego Osorno 2016, 2019

      Translation © Juana Adcock 2019

      Foreword © Jon Lee Anderson 2019

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-437-5

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-435-1 (UK EBK)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-436-8 (US EBK)

       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Osorno, Diego Enrique, 1980- author.

      Title: Carlos Slim : The Power, Money, and Morality of One of the World’s Richest Men / Diego Enrique Osorno ; translated by Juana Adcock.

      Other titles: Slim. English

      Description: Brooklyn, NY : Verso, [2019] | “Originally published in Spanish as Slim: Retrato del hombre mas rico del mundo.”

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019017201| ISBN 9781786634375 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781786634368 (US ebk)

      Subjects: LCSH: Slim, Carlos, 1940- | Telefonos de Mexico—History. | Businessmen—Mexico—Biography.

      Classification: LCC HC132.5.S55 O85313 2019 | DDC 384.6092 [B] –dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017201

      Typeset in Sabon by MJ & N Gavan, Truro, Cornwall

      Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY

      To Daniel Gershenson, Cuauhtémoc Ruiz and Andrés Ramírez

      In memory of Conrado Osorno

      All power is a permanent conspiracy.

      Balzac