Carlos Slim is the reason the NYT made it through the media’s trough of sorrow when they went from trying to be a somewhat objective paper of record to being all partisan all the time. He’s a Mexican billionaire who made his money off of having the political connections to get the mobile phone monopoly. There’s shag all negative coverage of one of the world’s richest men whose wealth was based on clientilism.

Yes, please expand here, I didn't even know about the aforementioned CIA connections