5. Is it true that Carlos Salinas de Gortari sold Telmex to you
in exchange for a favor?  A favor in exchange for what? Some
said that and it was repeated quite insistently.  Let’s see. 
They said he was a partner.  I think that if someone is going to
do business it is absurd to buy an over-priced company at 8.600,
when he can buy it for one thousand.  Do you agree?.  First
there were four or five bidders, and then only three, three
Mexicans because Mexican majority was a must and there were
approximately 14 foreigner bidders; then we, the Mexican
partners, were lucky to choose the foreign partner, because we
were three and they were 12.  At the end we were actually two
Mexicans who chose four foreigners After meeting with almost all
of them, we chose two,; I think we met with probably eight or
ten and we chose two, the French and the Americans.  The French
because they had had a very old plant in France, in very poor
conditions and had turned it into a highly efficient company.
And the American partners, be