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Epilogue: The Mixed Legacy of William O. Jenkins
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A short assessment of Jenkins’s legacy and the impact of the state-capital symbioses that his career exemplified. Jenkins had much in common with the richest person in Mexico of today, Carlos Slim, for both were wizards with numbers, fearless purchasers when others were panic-selling, monopolists, and beneficiaries of crony capitalism. The persistence of monopolistic plutocrats is something of a legacy of Jenkins’s career. Other legacies include the persistence in Puebla of autocratic governors affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the recurrence of gringophobia in the rhetoric of the nationalist left. A more positive legacy is the fruit of his philanthropy: the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation, still one of Mexico’s biggest charities, and the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla (UDLAP), one of Mexico’s leading universities.
Title: Epilogue: The Mixed Legacy of William O. Jenkins
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A short assessment of Jenkins’s legacy and the impact of the state-capital symbioses that his career exemplified.
Jenkins had much in common with the richest person in Mexico of today, Carlos Slim, for both were wizards with numbers, fearless purchasers when others were panic-selling, monopolists, and beneficiaries of crony capitalism.
The persistence of monopolistic plutocrats is something of a legacy of Jenkins’s career.
Other legacies include the persistence in Puebla of autocratic governors affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the recurrence of gringophobia in the rhetoric of the nationalist left.
A more positive legacy is the fruit of his philanthropy: the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation, still one of Mexico’s biggest charities, and the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla (UDLAP), one of Mexico’s leading universities.
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