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year, it hopes to have a presence in 17 Latin American countries.

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To get the maximum bang for its cash and also to satisfy local ownership rules, Telefonica has

built its Latin American empire mostly through consortia that it leads but only partly owns...

In its

accounts, international operations make up around a quarter of its revenues (and only an eighth

of its profits). But adding in the sales of all the operations it manages, they already exceed the

domestic figure. It now has 23.5m telephone customers in Latin America?against 21.6m in Spain.

Until this summer, Mr Villalonga's expansionism seemed to have paid off: Telefonica's market

capitalisation had more than tripled to $50 billion...

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