Carlos Slim and Germán Larrea Mota Velasco were sitting together in the National Palace Hall, where applause sounded on more than one occasion to the phrases and achievements achieved in the first year Government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The life president of Grupo Carso and the owner of Grupo México had not been portrayed in a recently public event, much less had been together in front of an act of a president.
Nor did it happen 11 years ago, when for the first time the first photograph of Germán Larrea Mota Velasco, who had been a mysterious man and who even doubted his existence was shown on the pages of Forbes. It was only heard that he owned the mines that produce copper in Mexico.
Today the two millionaires were listening to Sheinbaum Pardo for almost half an hour in their first government report. This year the former Government Chief of Mexico City opened public investors, such as the construction of passenger trains, the building of electrical infrastructure, ducts and even oil. In all these sectors, the millionaires have raised their hands and continue to invest in Mexico.
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The president asked businessmen to support the consolidation of the Mexico Plan, which seeks to attract investments.
“I take the opportunity to summon the businessmen of our country respectfully to join the Mexico Plan since we advance with a bank that generates better credit conditions,” said the president.
“Mexico requires even more active and visionary businessmen, deeply committed to the future of Mexico,” were the phrases of Sheinbaum Pardo that reached the two largest fortunes in Mexico.
Carlos Slim has a 82,500 million dollars in 2025. His assets were reduced compared to 2024, but still remains the richest and most wealthy Mexican in Latin America.
While Germán Larrea Mota Velasco is the second richest man in Mexico and this year he saw an increase in his fortune, placing it by 28, 600 million pesos.
Carlos Slim and Germán Larrea Mota Velasco were part of the Mexican businessmen specially invited to the first government report.
The last time Germán Larrea made a public appearance and before a president was in 2017, when Enrique Peña Nieto met with the Mexican Business Council.
Sheinbaum sat together the richest men in Mexico in the National Palace.
Francisco Cervantes Díaz, president of the Business Coordinating Council, arrived and left with Carlos Slim Helú and his son Carlos Slim Domit, president of the Board of Directors of America Mobile. They three left in a luxury car along the street of Corregidora, where today there was no street trade and a lot of security.
Other businessmen who also heard Sheinbaum were Daniel Jesús Chávez Morán, owner of Grupo Vidanta and an advisor in the construction of the Mayan train and the hotel infrastructure of the Mayan world, which is operated by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).
Rogelio Zambrano Lozano, executive president of the Board of Directors of CEMEX, Eugenio Madero Pinsón, CEO and executive president of the Board of Directors of Rassini, as well as Bernardo Gómez Martínez Co-President Executive of Grupo Televisa, and Adrián Sada Cueva, president of the Board of Directors of Vitro, Daniel Servitje, President of the Bimbo Group, Agustín Coppel Luken, president of the Board of Directors of Grupo Coppel, and Óscar del Cueto Cuevas, president of Canadian Pacific Kansas City of Mexico.
Other patterns seen by the halls of the National Palace were Manuel Arroyo Rodríguez, president and general director of Grupo Multimedia Lauman, owner of El Financiero, Olegario Vázquez Aldir, general director of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles and Grupo Imagen Multimedia, as well as Francisco González Albuerne, president of Grupo Multimedios, owner of the Millennium newspaper.
Mónica Aspe Bernal, CEO of AT&T Mexico, and Altagracia Gómez Sierra, coordinator of the Regional Economic Development Advisory and Company Advisory Council and Business Relocation. She is responsible for being the link between the president and the great Mexican fortunes.
