A Mexican is now the world's richest man.

orware · Cholo Nako Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 38 Votes: 1

Just saw this on the Digg front page:

http://digg.com/business_finance/Bill_Gates_no_longer_world_s_richest_man

Seemed pretty interesting to me, even though it doesn't have any world-shattering complications attached with it.

-Omar

elchrist · Posted: 03 Jul 2007 01:56 PM Post subject:

Interesting how many of the internationally successful Mexicans have non-Latino names...

Carlos Slim is Lebanese, just as is Salma Hayek.

Hank, Fox, Jones, and so on.

orware · Cholo Nako Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 38 Votes: 1

I had been noticing the same things.

Up at school there was this guy that ran his own little electronics shop named Eid. He was Arabic so when I went in there one day to ask for a part me and buddy needed to work on a little hacking experiment of ours and I told him my name he asked if I was Arabic too.

When I told him I was Mexican, he told me that a lot of Arabic people moved to Mexico and opened up businesses there (I don't know at what specific time period he was talking about here, the interesting part was to hear about it).

The thing for me is that I always seemed to see Mexico as a homogeneous "brown" country, but Mexico is also a country of immigrants, just like the US. From the Arabs to the Mennonites to the large Asian population in Mexicali, a whole lot of people have moved to Mexico from other countries.

One easy example for me is my neighbor a few fields over who is the chef over at the Fortune House in El Centro. He's Chinese but he's from the other side of the border originally.

Just wanted to throw that out into the air, but I do get your point that these people with more European backgrounds (judging from their last names) seem to wield the most power.

-Omar

berimbau · Posted: 10 Jul 2007 10:59 AM Post subject:

Wow, Mexico's poverty gap just turned into the Mariana trench! Now that intro to the article below is a scary statement.

On a related note, I read Slim has a Rodin collection. Were these the same pieces that were in exhibition in Mexicali?

Yo Quiero Todo Bell Source:wired.com
Telmex tycoon Carlos Slim Helù controls Mexico's local phone service, long distance, and Net access, not to mention half of the nation's stock market. Now he's set his sights north of the border [...] Not a day goes by without almost every Mexican consumer paying tribute to Carlos Slim Helù
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/slim.html

realneo · Posted: 10 Jul 2007 12:38 PM Post subject:

mexicans would rather buy a ten dollar card for their phone than to eat

elchrist · Posted: 10 Jul 2007 01:18 PM Post subject:

ivfootball.com · Posted: 11 Jul 2007 08:46 AM Post subject: f

Someone commented that a Ma Bell type of split-up in Mexico would strip him of some power. He just needs to be like Gates and give some loot to stopping poverty in the region.

verbal · Posted: 11 Jul 2007 08:59 AM Post subject:

That would make sense why Verizon lost its contract with Mexican cellular service. Verizon used to have a North American Plan that allowed US callers to call Mexico/Canada with their minute allowance. That plan has been canceled and roaming fees in Mexico were increased to .99 c p/m and .50 c for text.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed!

locoinclx · Posted: 16 Jul 2007 02:43 PM Post subject:

Thats why i check out Mr. Slim's stock when im thinking of buying Telecom stock...