Carlos Slim

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/carlos-slim

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Carlos Slim born?January 28, 1940
2. Where was Carlos Slim born?Mexico City, Mexico
3. What is the net worth (july 2025)?Approximately US$99.1 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index)
4. Who is Carlos Slim?Carlos Slim is a Mexican businessman who became one of the richest people in the world by building a huge company called Grupo Carso.
5. How did he become rich?He bought companies that were having trouble, especially in phones, and made them work better. This helped him grow a lot of money.

Business Oligarch: An extremely wealthy and powerful individual who exerts significant control over a nation's economy and industries.
Conglomerate: A large corporation composed of a number of different, often unrelated, companies and industries under a single corporate group.
Telecommunications: The field of technology and business concerned with the communication of information over distances, including phone, internet, and broadcasting.
Privatization: The process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, public service, or public property from the public sector to the private sector.