Carlos Slim: Who is the powerful Mexican widow with whom he lives his autumnal love?

• Relationships Slim and Felipe González: the keys to the friendship of the millionaire and the politician

Last weekend, an unprecedented event took place in the celebration of the Formula 1 World Championship in Mexico City: the billionaire Carlos Slim (82) appeared at the Hermanos Rodríguez circuit to support the Mexican driver Checo Pérez on the arm of Mercedes Sánchez Navarro, thus giving overtones of officiality to a sentimental relationship that since April was the subject of rumors in the pink press.

If Slim, with

is famous for being one of the richest men on the planet and the wealthiest in Latin America,

which extends its tentacles to Spain.

His father was Juan Sánchez Navarro Peón, the main shareholder of the Modelo group, the brewing giant that exports Coronita beer, as well as other brands such as Modelo and Pacífico.

It was sold in 2013 for 20,000 million dollars to the Anheuser Busch group, although Mercedes and his brothers retain shares in the company.

Juan, also a pioneer in advertising, held important positions such as president of the bankers' club and

He was also in charge of rehabilitating the Sánchez Navarro surname, which in colonial times owned millions of hectares, but the revolutionary Benito Juárez stripped his great-grandfather Carlos of all his lands.

daughter of the governor of Sinaola, and they had four children: Miguel, Eduardo, Beatriz and Mercedes, Slim's "girlfriend".

One of his nieces, Mónica, daughter of his brother Eduardo, an important hotel businessman from Los Cabos, is famous in Spain and maintains close ties with King Felipe, as she is married to Ricky Fuster who, along with his brother Álvaro, are among the closest friends of the monarch since they were educated together at the Los Rosales school.

and currently he usually plays paddle tennis every week with him and his brother Álvaro.

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The relationship between magnate Carlos Slim and Mercedes Sánchez Navarro is confirmed

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The relationship between magnate Carlos Slim and Mercedes Sánchez Navarro is confirmed

Children of Ricardo Fuster, owner of Spanish Aerospace, the representative of Mc Donald Douglas in Spain,

and in summer his mansion in Guadalmina.

In addition,

Mónica, mother of her five children, has a leather firm, Mon&Pau, and has relationships in Spain at the highest level, as her friends include Genoveva Casanova, María León, Nuria, Fernández Tapias's wife, and Beatriz Mira, Álvaro's wife. , who turned to support her when in 2018 the Mexican lost her brother Pablo, who died suddenly at the age of 33.

Mónica Sánchez Navarro, in an image from 2012.GTRES

His aunt Mercedes, now in the spotlight for her relationship with Slim, married twice, the first to Antonio Cué, father of her four children and, after divorcing, she joined businessman Prudencio López Martínez, who died in 2021 at the age of 88.

According to

, he became intimate with Slim on the birthday of his in-law, the cultural promoter

whose daughter is

the spark arising thanks to their common fondness for art, gastronomy and philanthropy. plus they were both widowers.

Slim's wife,

with whom he was married for 33 years and

, Carlos, Soumaya, Patricio, Johana, Marco and Vanessa, died in 1999 at the age of 50 from a long kidney disease for which he had to undergo a transplant as a young man.

Since then, Slim has apparently remained faithful to her memory, because until Mercedes she had not been publicly shown with any partner.

Despite the fact that in 2009 LOC uncovered the

and like him of Lebanese descent, although born in the United States: Noor from Jordan, who lost her husband, King Hussein, the day before Slim's wife died .

United by that misfortune,

, from New York to London, Cap Cana (Dominican Republic) or the Vail ski resort, sheltered in the privacy provided by their powerful contacts.

In Spain, they focused on former president Felipe González and the wealthy owner of the La Finca urbanization, Luis García Cereceda, in whose estate,

, in Brunete the couple hid, according to

.

They assure that

and provided him with important contacts, although it has not been proven whether there was financial consideration or out of pure friendship.

, the construction company of the Koplowitz and also two million euros to

In recent years, he usually spends his summers in Avión, a town in Ourense, invited by businessman Olegario Vázquez Raña, with whom he plays dominoes at the O Luar bar.

His relationship with Noor de Jordania

, which faded over time, always remained a total secret, because unlike Mercedes, he never showed himself with her in public.

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