{"id":944,"date":"2012-07-16T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/16\/the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:37","slug":"the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/16\/the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/2179461971\/the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states-crony-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-labor-through-nafta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/2179461971\/the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states-crony-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-labor-through-nafta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/VamFL6TZRfEgE-4_jy7Qrzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>&hellip; in 1990, Carlos Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years. The profit earned from the acquisition of Telmex was the fuel that allowed Slim to finance his telecommunications empire, still dominating the Mexican telephone landline market as well as the nation&rsquo;s cell phone user business through a spin-off firm, Telcel. In turn, the enormous revenue generated by the original sweetheart deal has helped finance Slim becoming the developer and owner of the largest mobile phone company in Latin America, Am\u00e9rica M\u00f3vil.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/news\/item\/10309-the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states-crony-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-labor-through-nafta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties&hellip; in 1990, Carlos Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years. The profit earned from the acquisition of Telmex was the fuel that allowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/16\/the-1-connection-mexico-and-the-united-states\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1134,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/28\/new-mexico-driver-arrested-and-forgotten-in-jail\/","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"New Mexico driver arrested and forgotten in jail for two years \u2014 RT","author":"aslam","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties A 58-year-old New Mexico man has been awarded $22 million in one of the largest ever federal civil rights settlements of its kind. 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