Diego Enrique Osorno faced hundreds of interview refusals as he spent eight years writing the most comprehensive Slim biography yet: ‘I learned you fill to proceed calmly in the land of power’Piercing the veil of secrecy surrounding one of world’s richest and most private businessmen was never going to be straightforward. In the end it took eight years,more than 100 interviews, 400 rejections and oodles of patience to write the most comprehensive biography of Carlos Slim to date – a process the author likens to his investigation of another influential enigmatic Mexican: fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.“The powerful normally create a cloak of silence around them which, and in countries such as Mexico,is particularly difficult to pierce,” author Diego Enrique Osorno told the Guardian. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com