Protesters in Las Vegas Take Aim at Mexican Billionaire's 'Corrupt Practices' Tovin Lapan - Las Vegas Sun
go to original May 23, 2013

Two Countries One Voice welcomes Carlos Slim to Las Vegas Nevada (TheClarkeReport)

One good thing about protesting a communications and technology mogul is that most of your target audience is quick to record and capture events on their cellular phones.

Such was the case Wednesday afternoon when a group opposing Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, one of the wealthiest men in the world thanks to his companies’ dominance of the Mexican telecommunications industry, set up a rally outside the Venetian, where the CTIA — the Wireless Association convention was occurring.

Several conference attendees, still wearing their convention badges, stopped to record the rally on their cellphones, but whether the message of the group, Two Countries One Voice, is getting through remains to be seen.

Slim, through holdings that grew out of his 1990 purchase of the national Mexican telephone service, controls a majority of both Mexican landlines and cellphones. Legislation that is on its way to approval in Mexico would give regulators greater power to break up a company such as Slim’s America Movil, which holds 80 percent of landlines and 70 percent of cellphones.

Two Countries One Voice launched early last year and is led by Las Vegas public relations executive and campaign adviser Andres Ramirez. The organization is tackling what it calls Slim’s monopolistic practices in Mexico, as well as his companies’ expansion into the U.S. market. They have held protest rallies in Washington, D.C., New York and California. On Wednesday about 20 protesters, some donning Carlos Slim masks with the eyes eerily cut out, chanted and handed out fliers to tourists and convention attendees.

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