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Carlos Helú

Honorary Chairman, América Móvil

Search every verified Carlos Helú interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Carlos Slim Helú, honorary chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil, held his annual press conference on May 26, 2026, to discuss Mexico's economic outlook, investments, inflation, housing, and infrastructure challenges. During the event, he stated that Mexico has favorable conditions to accelerate economic growth and described wage increases as an opportunity to reduce poverty and bring more people into employment and productive activity. He also announced that his companies would invest approximately 5,000 million pesos in Mexico this year. Slim discussed historical economic parallels, referencing the Great Depression in the United States and its effects on Mexico. He addressed questions on topics including oil production, judicial reform, and infrastructure financing, and noted that he had spoken with the president of the Supreme Court about reinstating a program to provide bail support for individuals detained due to poverty or innocence.

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“Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed.”

“The ideal would be to achieve two things in Mexico: one is to grow at 4 or 5% of GDP and the other is to raise the socioeconomic level of the population.”

“Look at what Netanyahu's genocide is doing; it's not Israel — the Jews even hold marches against it. This guy is not right, he wants to kill 2 million people or force 2 million people out.”

“Ifetel never gave us television — prepaid, we never used it. It wasn't so autonomous; the regulator ended up obeying the legal director of the presidency and orders from others who had no reason to be issuing orders.”

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