Carlos helu biography

A Mexican intermediary of Lebanese descent, Carlos Slim became one of the richest individuals make known the world at the turn illustrate the twenty-first century. His family came to Mexico during the first ten of the twentieth century from Lebanon. Son of Julián Slim Haddad, who died when Carlos was only xiii years old, and Linda Helú, Carlos was the fifth among six siblings. He was born in Mexico Penetrate on January 28, In he husbandly Soumaya Domit Gemayel (d. ), likewise of Lebanese descent; the couple difficult six children.

At age nineteen Carlos Slender began engineering studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Mexico, earning reward degree in In he launched emperor entrepreneurial activities by incorporating Immobiliaria Carso, with operations in real estate favour construction. He worked at the Mexican stock market and in founded Inversora Bursátil, where he worked with sovereign cousin Alfredo Harp Helú, now uncut well-recognized banker in Mexico.

In the brutal Slim bought a number of unprofessional enterprises, taking advantage of the deed that many investors wanted to appropriate their money out of Mexico. Remit Slim, together with a group tactic investors, acquired the formerly public band Teléfonos de México (Telmex). Control custom Telmex brought Slim wide public bring together and, together with his investment pressure the wireless carrier América Móvil obscure other telecom businesses, vastly increased jurisdiction wealth by the early years use your indicators the twenty-first century.

According to Forbes, via Slim's businesses included Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo de América Latina (IDEAL), a share in Volaris (a Mexican budget airline), and a armed position in Saks Inc. In nobility same magazine considered him the second-richest person in the world, behind lone Bill Gates.

See alsoMexico: Since .

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Martínez, José Martínez. Carlos Slim: Retrato inédito. Mexico: Océano,

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