Last Monday, March 21, the birth of former President Benito Juárez García was commemorated, who was born that day in 1806, in the municipality of Guelatao, in Oaxaca. However, the same Monday was the date that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) chose to open the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA).
The inauguration of the airfield came after the country's first president gave his classic morning press conference. The airport, which is located in the Santa Lucía neighborhood, in the municipality of Zumpango, State of Mexico, had 20 operations on its first day.
The inauguration of AIFA was attended by leading politicians, such as Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Governor of Morelos; Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Head of Government of the Mexico City and Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, many personalities from the business world were also found, such as the president of Grupo Televisa, Emilio Azcárraga Jean; Carlos Hank González, president of the Board of Directors of Grupo Banorte, and Mexico's richest businessman, Carlos Slim Helú, owner of companies such as Telmex, América Móvil and Grupo Carso.
Slim didn't attend the event alone, as he was accompanied by one of his six children, Patrick Slim Domit.
He is one of the six children of Mexico's richest businessman, and one of the richest in the world, Carlos Slim Helú. Patrick Slim Domit holds important positions in some of his father's companies, as he is vice president of Grupo Carso and América Móvil. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ferrosur and is CEO of Industrias Nacobre. He is also director of Grupo Samborns, and is an active part of the Carlos Slim Foundation, specifically on education and health issues. María de Jesús Aramburu is his wife, with whom he has two children: Diego and Norma Isabel.
According to an article published by the Spanish newspaper El País, Patrick sympathizes with anti-abortion organizations, even being a donor of money for some. The same article notes that Patrick Slim is identified as part of the anti-abortion lobby that has led several states in the country to criminalize termination of pregnancy.
It is explained that he is a fervent Catholic who has fought in defense of conservative values. Even Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Slim's biographer, highlighted Patrick Slim's devotion to the Virgin of Cleveland, a religious figure who supposedly entrusted him with the defense of the unborn.
Carlos Slim Helú's youngest son has combined his faith with his entrepreneurial work. Until 2014 he was president of the Mission for God's Love Around the World, an organization created in 2009 by the English priest John Rick Miller. The congregation aims to convert people to the faith of Christ “in the political, government, judicial and business areas to help make people understand that they are children of God and not children of the world.”
The role of Slim Domit, according to Forbes, was central to the expansion of the mission in Latin America. This is because the businessman made several visits to countries in the region, to head breakfasts with local businessmen and members of the clergy. In May 2013, he visited Havana, Cuba, to meet with church authorities. That same month he was in Quito, Ecuador, at an event called Corporate Responsibility for Development in Family and Society Values.
By November 2014, he was in Nicaragua, where he led a similar event with 40 entrepreneurs. In May of that year it received a distinction given by the Colombian Congress for the “Catholic evangelization of the Colombian people”.
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