New York
Times Owner Slim’s Historic Rudolph Giuliani Connection
The
same New Internationalist (6/1/04) magazine article also
revealed how New York City’s former Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s
consulting firm was paid $4.3 million in 2004 by “a group of business
interests” led by New York Times Owner Slim:
“Like his
father before him, Carlos Slim is
now eyeing the Mexico City real estate market. And he’s counting on ex-New York
City mayor Rudy Giuliani for help. Slim…led
a group of business interests who paid Giuliani’s consulting firm $4.3 million
for a report on how to clean up the city’s historic centre. Both the mayor and
the police chief embraced the report’s recommendations. Not surprisingly, they
echo Giuliani’s approach in New York – which was basically to make it impossible
for the poor to live there. The report calls for a crackdown on street vendors,
prostitution, graffiti and homeless kids who watch parked cars for a few pesos.
Critics fear the project is an attempt to boost property values for real estate
speculators while pushing the poor to the city’s crowded suburban slums…”
(end of
part 9)
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