Looking for a Legacy.(Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helu believes existing models for economic growth have failed in Latin America)

The guest list read like a who's who of Latin America's wealthiest tycoons, and some of the participants in the four-day business summit came from as far away as Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. The assembled captains of industry, who gathered in Mexico City in May, included Venezuela's Gustavo Cisneros and Colombia's Julio Mario Santodomingo. But their gracious host, Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helu, had more weighty matters on his mind than the pursuit of profit. In his private gallery festooned with masterpieces by Monet, Degas and van Gogh, Slim told the gathering that existing models for economic growth had failed Latin America--and the time had come to ...