Early Life . Carlos Slim was born Jan. 28, 1940, in Mexico City, Mexico. His parents, Julián Slim Haddad and Linda Helú Atta, were both Maronite Catholics of Lebanese descent.

Carlos Slim Helú's fortune is up almost $20 billion in a year, built amid poverty and resentment in Mexico. Now he's gaining on Warren Buffett. ... His father, Julian Slim Haddad Aglamaz, ...

Carlos Slim Helú (Arabic:كارلوس سليم حلو) (Spanish pronunciation: ), ... Mexico. His father, Julián Slim, a Lebanese Maronite Catholic, immigrated from Lebanon at the age of 14.

Here, 7 need-to-know facts about Carlos Slim Helu. The Week. US Edition. ... Julian Slim Haddad, Carlos's father, immigrated to Mexico from Lebanon in 1902 to escape military conscription.

Self-made billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, 71, developed his business acumen at a young age and attributes his success to one person: his father. Slim, who reigned as the world's richest person from ...

Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico, the industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western ...

I remember there was a time when the value of his enterprises was very low," recalls Patrick, the youngest son of Carlos Slim Helú. It was the early 1980s, and Mexico was in the depths of a ...

Slim is the surname of Carlos’s father Julián, who was called Youssef Salim before moving to Mexico, upon which he changed his first name to Julián and altered his surname to Slim. He was actually a ...

Father: Julián Slim Haddad, real estate investor. Mother: Linda Helú Atta. Marriage: Soumaya Domit Gemayel (1966-1999, her death) ... Slim’s cousin, financier Harp Helu, is kidnapped.

The richest person in the world, 71-year-old Carlos Slim Helu, the son of a Mexico City shopkeeper, has a net worth of $74.5 billion. Here are five things you should know about him ...

Early Life Carlos Slim was born Jan. 28, 1940, in Mexico City, Mexico. His parents, Julián Slim Haddad and Linda Helú Atta, were both Maronite Catholics of Lebanese descent.