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
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.
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