1 As of March 2011, Slim’s corporate holdings have been estimated at US$74 billion.
2 Also Ottoman Porte or High Porte
3 Diccionario enciclopedico de mexicanos de origenes libanes y otros pueblos del levante (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mexicans with Lebanese Origin and other Peoples of Eastern Orgin)
4 A person from the Mexican state of Chihuahua
5 National Peasant Confederation
6 National Unification Revolutionary Party
7 Order of Cedar
8 Mexican Stock Exchange
9 Delgado is the Spanish word for thin; a synonym for Slim
10 The Expanding Man
11 Association for the Improvement of Mexico, A.C.
12 Institute of Technology
13 As of August 2011, Slim became the largest shareholder of the luxury retailer Saks Inc. with a 16 percent stake in the company.
14 María Félix (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican film actress and one of the icons of the golden era of Mexican cinema.
15 Basque separatist group known as the ETA
16 Fideicomiso para la Cobertura de Riesgos Cambiarios – Trust for Hedge Funds
17 A Mayan people who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border of Guatemala.
18 Ahuehuete is derived from the Nahautl name for tree. It means: “upright drum in water” or “old man of the water.”
19 Fund for Assistance, Promotion and Development
20 University Corporation for Internet Development
21 Technological Institute for Telephones of Mexico (notice the play on words “Telephones of Mexico” can also be interpreted as the name of Slim’s company Telmex).
22 Telmex Foundation
23 Carso Foundation
24 Fostering Development and Employment in Latin America
25 Smuggled items or contraband
26 Center for the study of Mexican History Carso
27 The company names are officially in Spanish. Though the English equivalent is provided here, it is not to be mistaken for the official English names of the companies listed.
28 The company names are officially in Spanish. Though the English equivalent is provided here, they are not to be mistaken for the official English names of the companies listed.
29 Free Enterprise S.A. of C.V. (Variable Capital Company)
30 In 1993, President Salinas de Gortari altered the value of the Mexican peso as a result of hyperinflation. At the time, one “new peso” was equal to one thousand of the old ones. By 1996, all original pesos had been removed from circulation and the new peso became the standard peso and is still in circulation at present.
31 Though Slim was not under investigation for insider trading, he was fined US$85.5 million by a US court in 2001. Grupo Sanborns, Grupo Carso and CompUSA were fined a combined US$36 million.
32 Translated: “My Times”
33 Popular proverb of the oral Spanish tradition. Refers to the miserly character of the person in question.
34 A “dollar-remover”; a person who parks money (usually large sums) in foreign banks as a hedge against deflation and various political dangers.
35 The Two Americas
36 Fondo Bancario de Protección al Ahorro or Banking Fund for the Protection of Savings. A contingency fund created in Mexico in the 1990s to prevent the collapse of the banking system. The fund was later revealed to be plagued by corruption.
37 In 2011, shortly after Bronco Drilling was purchased by Chesapeake Energy, Slim sold his 4.2 million shares for $11 a share, which equaled about a forty percent profit.
38 On August 15, 2011, the newspaper announced that had repaid its US$250 million debt to slim (approximately US$279 million with interest) more than three years ahead of schedule.
39 In August of 2011, Slim’s stock in NYT rose to just over 7 percent, or 10.6 million shares.
40 S.A. de C.V. Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable (Variable Capital Company)
41 Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
42 Secretary of the General Comptroller of the Federation