Monday, February 16, 2009

Mexico's media bigwig

Having just returned from Mexico where everybody was talking about Carlos Slim Helu, I returned to the upper two-thirds of North America to find that everybody here is talking about him, too. Sanborns, his chain of restaurants/stores, with its selection of food, prescription drugs, magazines, books, eletronics and other gifty items, is an iconic Mexican institution, a weird mix I haven't seen attempted in any other country (the Western Canadian London Drugs, featuring shampoo and computers, comes a distant second). Mexican friends of mine travel in Mexico with a particular friend who refuses to eat anywhere else.

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