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• Mr. Carlos Slim took part as a guest of honor and speaker in the act of acknowledgment to Emergent Leaders of the Puerto Rico’s College of Engineers and Surveyors (CIAPR in Spanish) during the Conference & Expo Meeting CIAPR 2010 in Puerto Rico.
  August 5, 2010. Puerto Rico.
  
  
• The high-level advisory group of the United Nations Organization (UN), on energy and climate change, met today in Mexico, to design new forms public-private partnership and support the overall objectives of access to energy and energy efficiency. Mr. Carlos Slim is a member of the UN Advisory Group.
  Mexico City, July 15th 2010.
  
  
• Bill Clinton, Carlos Slim and Frank Giustra, launch a 20 million Dollar Fund for Small and Medium-Size Firms (SMFs) in Haiti.
  June 17, 2010. Port-au-Prince, Haití.
  
  
• The Carlos Slim Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the government of Spain and the IDB, launch the Mesoamerica Health 2015 Initiative. The aim of this Initiative is to reduce the gap in health equality faced by the poorest 20% of population living in Central America and Southern Mexico.
  June 14, 2010, Mexico, City.
  
  
• Grupo Carso Plan 2010
  
  
• United by Haiti informs that thanks to generous contributions from 120,236 persons in help for Haiti
  May 11, 2010.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Foundation, National Auditorium and Mexican artists, reunited by Aleks Syntek to participate in the solidarity concert A Mexican Musical Hearth for Haití, informs to the general public.
  April 28, of 2010.
  
  
• About two thousand million pesos will be invested in environment projects in priority areas of México. Investment capital will come from an agreement between Semarnat, WWF and Carlos Slim Foundation in support of environment protection actions.
  México, D. F., April 15, 2010
  
  
• The Carlos Slim Foundation doubles “Unidos por Chalco” concert’s earnings in support of Chalco’s flood victims.
  February 28, 2010.
  
  
• The Carlos Slim Foundation is jointly working with UNICEF in supporting Haiti emergency crisis alleviation and then to uphold reconstruction.
  México, D. F., February 3th, 2010.
  
  
• Mexican pop artists, National Auditorium and Carlos Slim Foundation joined efforts for putting into effect the fund-raising concert A Mexican Musical Heart for Haiti, in support for this Latin American nation.
  February 17 of 2010.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Foundation communicates that donations for Haiti’s victims through TELMEX and TELCEL will conclude next January 31.
  January 28 of 2010, Mexico City.
  
  
• Mr. Carlos Slim Helú, Mr. Carlos Slim Domit, Telmex's executive board chairman, Mr. Héctor Slim Seade, Telmex's general director, and other top Telmex's executives presented Plan "TELMEX 2010 - Technology-Innovation Drive".
  México, D. F., January 20, 2010.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Institute of Health start one of the world’s largest research projects for public health in México, on the genome of cancer, as well as on the genome of diabetes and some variaTions of renal insuffiency.
  January 19 of 2010, Mexico City.
  
  
• TELMEX and TELCEL announce phone numbers to make donations for Haiti. The Carlos Slim Foundation will contribute the equivalent to the public-contributed whole amount.
  México, D. F., January 15, 2010.
  
  
• Mr. José Luis Luege, general director of National Water Commission (Conagua), and Mr. Carlos Slim did sign a contract for building the Atotonilco Waste Water Treatment Plant past January 7, 2010. The plant is designed to be one of the biggest hydraulic infrastructure works in México.
  January 7, 2010, México City
  
  
• The Alliance WWF-Carlos Slim Foundation and ConcentrArte project presented the book “Cuatro Ciénegas: La mirada de sus niños”. An invitation to preserve the richness of the valley, natural laboratory for the evolution of species.
  December 9, 2009. Mexico City.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Foundation and Grameen Trust have launched the Grameen Carso microfinancing program with 45 million dollars.
  September 24, 2009.
  
  
• Mr. Carlos Slim announced the establishment of Fundación Inbursa, which will jointly operate with its similar La Caixa of Barcelona. The foundation will begin to operate with an one-thousand million pesos endowment, so enhancing the social responsibility aims that Fundación Carlos Slim has embraced since more than 20 years ago.
  September 7, 2009. Mexico City.
  
  
• Carlos Slim attended the ceremony in which the Federal District’s Legislative Assembly (ALDF) awarded journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky with the Citizen’s Merit Medal 2009 in recognition of his professional career and his personal contribution to life in Mexico City.
  August 19, 2009. Mexico City.
  
  
• Carlos Slim signed as witness of honor the Commitment to Liberty of Expression, Mexico 2009, convened by the Foundation for the Liberty of Expression AC, (FUNDALEX).  The ceremony was held in the presence of the press, experts and researchers from different disciplines.
  August 17, 2009 Mexico City.
  
  
• The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Fundacion Carlos Slim announced an initial investment of $100 million dollars to support the conservation of biodiversity and promote sustainable development in Mexico.
  June 4, 2009. Cozumel, Quintana Roo.
  
  
• Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, Governor of Estado de Mexico and Mr. Carlos Slim Helu inaugurated the Sports Center Ciudad Jardin TELMEX Bicentenario, an ambitious project of ecological rescue that was built on the surface of an old city dump known as Bordo de Xochiaca, in Nezahualcoyotl.
  May 21st, 2009. Mexico City.
  
  
• Press release of eng. Carlos Slim Helú, Plan 2009.
  
  
• Eng. Carlos Slim Helu was nominated member of the Executive Board of RAND Corporation (Research and Development), a nonprofit research organization in the United States, which offers assessment and solutions about commerce and politics, among other aspects, throughout the world.
  December 16th, 2008.
  
  
• Eng. Carlos Slim, along with Alex Rodriguez, baseball player of the New York Yankees, visited the new "Sports Center Ciudad Jardin TELMEX Bicentenario", the biggest sports center in Mexico located in the old waste dump of the Bordo de Xochiaca, in Nezahualcóyotl.
  November 30, 2008
  
  
• Eng. Carlos Slim participated in the opening ceremony of the event Fideicomiso para el Impulso de la Ingeniería organized by the Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de México (Civil Engineers College) in which the new web site iNGENET was introduced,  created and sponsored by TELMEX.
  Mexico City, November 20th, 2008.
  
  
• TELMEX, Claro and Museo Soumaya, from Fundación Carlos Slim, presents in Lima, Peru, the exhibit Del mito al Sueño. Rodin…. Dali.
  October 7 , 2008.
  
  
• Grameen Trust and Fundacion Carlos Slim announced an alliance to create Grameen-Carso which will start operating with resources of 45 million dollars for giving microcredits to the neediest in different states with higher rate of poverty in Mexico.
  September 29, 2008, Mexico City.
  
  
• President Clinton, Carlos Slim Announce $50 Million in New Projects in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru
  August 4, 2008, Mexico City.
  
  
• Engineer Carlos Slim announced the donation of 100,000 computers to more than 1,400 public schools in Mexico, during an event in Casa TELMEX Centro Histórico.
  July 23, 2008.
  
  
• Vivian Fernández de Torrijos, First Lady of Panama, and Carlos Slim Helú, supported by the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud, signed agreement to increase health programs.
  June 23, 2008
  
  
• Carlos Slim donate to Fundación ALAS, 110 million dollars to support childhood.
  May 15, 2008
  
  
• Carlos Slim, by Alvin Toffler, published on Builders and Titans section, in the Time magazine.
  April 25 of 2009

• Interview with Carlos Slim performed by Maria Bartiromo for the CNBC Network. First On CNBC.
  November 16, 2009.
  
  
• Interview realized to Carlos Slim Helú, performed by Rogelio Cárdenas Estandía, published by El Financiero Dialy. October 19, 2009.
  
  
• The State must intervene, Carlos Slim is awarded the George Washington University President’s Medal. His interview in PODER magazine. July 17, Washington, D.C., EE.UU.
  
  
• Interview with Carlos Slim for CNBC, performed by Michelle Caruso. October 30, 2008.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Helú interview by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO Google.
  
  
• Engineering Carlos Slim Helú´s interview performed by Miguel Jiménez and Amanda Mars, published by El País Dialy, on June 8, 2008.
  
  
• Carlos Slim Interview, Financier and Philanthropist, Mexico’s Telecommunication Tycoon. December 2, 2007, Washington, D.C . Published on www.achievement.org
  
  
• Engineering Carlos Slim Helu's interview performed by Estela Caparelli, published by Epoca Negócios magazine, number 6, August 1th, 2007.
  
  
• Engineering Carlos Slim Helu's interview performed by Francesc Relea, published by El Pais magazine number 1607, Sunday July 15th, 2007.

This section includes statements made by Mr. Carlos Slim Helú when basically he answers the most frequently asked questions in the national and foreign media.

1. What were Grupo Carso's initial activities?
   
   
2. Why did you and your group start buying so many companies during the 1982 crisis?
   
   
3. Could you give us some examples of the value of companies at the beginning of the 80s?
   
   
4. What do you think is the basis for the success of your companies?
   
   
5. Is it true that Carlos Salinas de Gortari sold Telmex to you in exchange for a favor?
   
   
6. Prior to 1990, before the privatization, why were users forced to buy Telmex shares?
   
   
7. How was Telmex privatized?
   
   
8. What percentage gave the winner group Telmex's control? Which was the initial stock scheme of the three buying companies?
   
   
9. Did all those stockholders meet to choose an administrator?
   
   
10. During the privatization process, was there ever a possibility to sell a division of the company, to sell a segmented network?
    
    
     
    
    
11. Was local service opened to competition prior to long distance?
    
    
12. Based on its Concession Title, may Telmex carry video in its network?
    
    
13. Did Telmex’s limitations to participate in Television affect the price paid when it was privatized?
    
    
14. What has been the evolution of Telmex's stock value after the privatization?
    
    
15. Were employees trained after the privatization and during the modernization of Telmex?
    
    
16. How are the public finances of the company kept sound?
    
    
17. How has competition impacted Telmex?
    
    
18. How has competition been with Telefónica?
    
    
19. Has Telmex tried to enter and compete in Spain?
    
    
20. What has been the evolution of Telcel/América Móvil?
    
    
    
     



21. What were the market conditions when Telmex and América Móvil’s internationalization begin’
    
    
22. For example, what are the new technologies that are being studied for rural telephony?
    
    
23. Sometimes it is said that Telmex charges the highest rates in the world, what do you think about this?
    
    
24. Is Telmex going to do something about the delay in enforcing the Convergence Agreement?
    
    
25. What does Telmex think about opening 100 per cent fixed telephony to foreign investment? and also, what does it think of the limitations imposed by the authorities on the acquisition of cable TV companies, in Wi-Max, among other?
    
    
26. What do you think about the conditions imposed by the Federal Competition Commission, on Televisa so that it may buy cable companies? and regarding Telmex, are you considering entering an alliance with Televisa for the content also?
    
    
27. Could Telmex be ready for Tripleplay if it already carries data through its network?
    
    
28. What activities will IDEAL be performing?
    
    
29. Which are your telecommunications projects?
    
    
30. What are your plans for COMPUSA and what is your opinion about this investment?
    
    
     
    
    
    
31. What do you think about the México’s situation in the immediate and medium term future?
    
    
32. Exactly what would you ask the Congress of the Union to consider in this tax reform in order to grow and generate jobs?
    
    
33. What do you think about the banks’ showing very big profits in their financial statements? And, what do you think about the value of companies in the Mexican Stock Exchange in 2006?
    
    
34. What Foundations do you have?
    
    
35. Which are the most important achievements of the Fundación Carlos Slim, A.C. and the Telmex Foundation?
    
    
36. ¿Qué apoyos se están dando o se darán en Latinoamérica?
    
    
37. What is the ALAS Project?
    
    
38. In philanthropy, are you considering doing something similar to what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have done?
    
    
39. What do you think about democracy?
    
    
40. What happens when democracy does not respect what comes before democracy?
    
    
     
    
    
41. What is the importance of the generation bonus, which occurs when the productive population is bigger in order to leave behind lack of growth? How do you think it can be better used?
    
    
42. What is your opinion on the large amounts of informal workers that leave the education system, called lost generations, between 15 and 40 years old and what are their options?
    
    
43. What is the solution for Mexico to grow and develop?
    
    
44. What do you think about big public institutions?
    
    
45. If security were your responsibility, what would you do?
    
    
46. What do you think of free trade?
    
    
47. What is your legacy to your sons?
    
    
48. How do you feel as the richest man in a world with 50 million of poor people?
    
    
49. What is success for Carlos Slim?
    
    
50. What should we do in Mexico, not to have all the money that you have, but rather for the Mexican people to have a better quality of life?
    
    
     
    
    
51. Have you prepared teams to follow your path? Or have you considered building a better Mexico or a better Latin America for future generations?
    
    
52. Why haven’t you made incursions in Mexican politics and run as a presidential candidate?

 

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