Thursday, March 12, 2009

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The "Chapo" Guzman, the Forbes magazine list


Drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "Chapo Guzman head of the 'cartel of Sinaloa, fugitive criminal "maximum security" big bridge Jalisco, with the help and complicity of the federal government during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada, it is now located where 701 of the richest the famed magazine Forbes, with a fortune of over a billion dollars.

I wonder, I wonder: What do you mean Forbes? "Converting a criminal role model for millions of desperate, or give support to those who want to see the Marines in the" drug war "? Full story

the Newspaper La Jornada:

Wealth Joint Mexican billionaires listed in the U.S. magazine Forbes last year decreased by 41 thousand 100 million dollars. This is a news publication, reported yesterday, it was no surprise, because the fortunes, in most cases, rely on the value that companies have in stock markets. The real novelty is that in the case of Mexico, the select club was incorporated Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera, head of drug trafficking cartel of Sinaloa and one of the largest suppliers of cocaine to the United States.

The world has become a wasteland of wealth, Forbes said in issue that will begin circulating this week and which updates its known list of billionaires, in which the first requirement for admission is to be held at least one billion dollars.

The three richest men in the world are the same in recent years, though they changed positions. The first site returned Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, with a fortune of 40 billion dollars, 18 billion less than at the beginning of last year. In the second place is Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment fund, who in 2008 ranked first. This year appears to 37 billion dollars, 25 billion dollars less than 12 months. The number three in the list is occupied now Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican telecommunications magnate, with 35 billion dollars. He also lost 25 billion dollars, compared with 2008.

The richest people in the world has faced a financial disaster in the last year, Forbes said in presenting the 2009 edition of the best known of their listings. In this edition include 793 people with a fortune of at least one billion dollars, a decline in membership of 30 percent from 125 thousand last year. This is the first time since 2003 that the world registered a net loss in the number of billionaires, the release added. That year, indeed, the world economy began to rise after the recession in the U.S. between late 2000 and 2002.

The collective wealth of the 793 people on the list is 2.4 trillion (million million) dollars. A lot or a little? It is a smaller amount to $ 2 billion last year and, for comparative purposes, the decrease is equivalent to twice the value of Mexico's gross domestic product, one of the 15 largest economies in the world.

Mexicans Forbes listed in fortunes hold in most cases are related to the production of income, a feature of the Mexican economy. This year the Mexican contribution to Forbes is nine people, who together have a fortune of 55 thousand 100 million dollars. In 2008 included 10 Mexicans, with a wealth of 96 billion 200 million dollars.

this year in the first place is occupied by Carlos Slim Helu, the largest shareholder of Telefonos de Mexico and also owns Telcel. His family fortune was estimated by the publication in 35 billion dollars, 25 billion less than in 2008. What is Alberto Bailleres (El Palacio de Hierro, Penoles, Grupo Nacional Provincial), with 5 000 $ 700 million, 4 thousand 100 million less than last year. The third place is Ricardo Benjamin Salinas Pliego (Tv Azteca, Banco Azteca, Elektra), with 4 200 billion, 2 000 100 million less than last year, when included in the fourth.

This year, the fourth Forbes Mexicans accounted Jerónimo Arango, former owner of the retail chain Wal-Mart holds today, with 3 thousand 400 million dollars (900 million less than last year); Larrea Mota Velasco, the miner Grupo Mexico (owner of the Pasta de Conchos mine, where dozens of miners were killed two years ago), 2 thousand $ 600 million, 4 thousand 700 million less than in 2008, Roberto Hernández Ramírez, tourism entrepreneur, former owner of Banamex and now seeks to repurchase the bank, with a thousand 200 million dollars (500 million less than in 2008).

four Mexicans still more, each with a fortune of billions of dollars, according to Forbes Joaquin Guzman, a drug trafficker, who ranks first in the list, Emilio Azcarraga Jean, the main shareholder of Televisa, the largest chain of English-language television world that last year was 700 million billion dollars, and Alfredo Harp Helu, also a former shareholder of Banamex and owner of a baseball team and a chain of sporting goods stores, which last year had $ 600 million more than in 2009.

On the 2008 list this year does not appear Lorenzo Zambrano, Cemex's main shareholder, a company that is now struggling to pay their debts. Monterrey businessman had last year, according to Forbes, a fortune of 500 million billion dollars.

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