Mexican businessman

Carlos Slim,

who will turn 81 next Thursday, suffers from

Covid-19

with "

minor

symptoms

"

for more than one week, his son,

Carlos Slim Domit

, reported on Monday

.

"I comment that my father preventively attended the

National Institute of Nutrition

for clinical analysis, monitoring and timely treatment, is very well and has had a very favorable evolution to Covid more than a week of minor symptoms," wrote on

Twitter

the heir to the employer.

Carlos Slim, born in

Mexico City

in 1940, is the richest man in

Mexico

with an estimated fortune of

52,000 million dollars.

The Carlos Slim Foundation signed an agreement last August to contribute to the production between

Argentina

and Mexico of the

AstraZeneca

Covid-19 vaccine

,

which thanks to its donation will be distributed throughout Latin America.

The agreement with the pharmaceutical company contemplates an initial supply of 150 million doses in the Latin American region, excluding

Brazil, a

country covered by the AstraZeneca agreement with the Brazilian government.

Mexico is already packaging these vaccines, although they have not yet reached the market.

Privately, the magnate Carlos Slim is known for his simplicity and austerity, and in public, for his good nose for business, which has led him to amass more than 52,000 million dollars in his 80s, according to the list of the majors. Fortunes of the World from

Forbes

Magazine

2020.

Slim came to head that list between 2010 and 2012 and currently occupies the

12th position worldwide,

although it has been affected in recent years by the sometimes irregular performance of the mobile operator

América Móvil,

which nevertheless continues to be the largest telecommunications firm in

Latin America.

Slim also has

Grupo Financiero Inbursa,

which operates a bank, a brokerage house, a retirement fund manager and an insurance company, among other subsidiaries.

It maintains control of its companies mainly through

Grupo Carso,

one of the most important conglomerates in Mexico, which includes, among others,

Grupo Condumex

(construction), the company

Carso Infraestructura y Construcción, Carso Energy

(dedicated to gas pipelines and non-energy renewable) or

Grupo Sanborns

(chain of coffee shops and commercial establishments).

Through Inversora Carso, Slim became the

main shareholder of the Spanish construction company FCC

in 2016

.

Slim is the majority partner of soccer teams, including

Real Oviedo,

from Spain, and supports the

Telmex

team project

from which Mexican F1 driver

Sergio Pérez came out,

whom he has supported throughout his career.

In that country, it also has a stake in

La Caixa,

where it became a shareholder in 2011 after buying a stake in

Criteria

before becoming

Caixabank.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Mexico

  • Twitter

  • Sergio Perez

  • Spain

  • Argentina

  • Brazil

  • Coronavirus

  • Covid 19

Economic NewsIsidro Fainé, the man behind the 'superbank': "We must mentalize ourselves for a period of difficulties of uncertain duration"

CoronavirusFrom Europe to Antarctica: the third wave of Covid-19 takes over the world

The Correspondent's GazeThe young Argentines burn the night ... and President Alberto Fernández

See links of interest

  • 2021 calendar

  • Spain - Hungary, live

  • Athletic Club - Getafe

  • FC Cartagena - Mirandés