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> Is there a source for this? For the claim that Slim had criminal ties? No, not really. The immediate source was this tweet, which asserted, without any clea
by duskwuff 2y ago
> Is there a source for this?
For the claim that Slim had criminal ties? No, not really.
The immediate source was this tweet, which asserted, without any clear basis, that Slim has "significant ties to the drug cartels in Mexico": https://x.com/wallstreetmav/status/1882255277551972619 https://x.com/wallstreetmav/status/1882255277551972619
The linked NYT article in the reply-to was https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/americas/mexico-cartel-terrorists-trade.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/americas/mexico-car... (archived: https://archive.ph/6Sn0Y https://archive.ph/6Sn0Y), which doesn't mention Slim at all.
- croddin 2y agoHere is Elon's quote of that tweet with the monocle emoji https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882301283090190520 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882301283090190520
- imgabe 2y agoDo you think anyone does serious business in Mexico and doesn't run into the cartels?
- sirbutters 2y agoI get some animal farm vibe reading this. I'm looking at the US gov and I'm looking a the cartels, and I can't figure out which one is which. The way this US gov is operating, they pretty much operate likes cartels "we are the boss, you stfu and you do as we say, or else".
- Braxton1980 2y agoAmerican car companies?
- foogazi 2y agoLol, what do you guys think the cartels are ?
- emmelaich 2y agoProbably not possible to be the richest person in Mexico without some incidental connection or accidental involvement with organised crime. So it really hardly matters, unless you get a lot of details.
- duskwuff 2y agoI don't doubt that's often the case, but there's still a big difference between a general statement and a specific claim.
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- foogazi 2y ago> Probably not possible to be the richest person in Mexico without some incidental connection or accidental involvement with organised crime. Honestly this sounds like a cartoonish understanding of a country Can you say the same about the US ? Where does Elon get his psychodelics ? Did Silk Road use AWS ?
- dgjakend 2y agoI haven’t seen any clear connection. maybe it links to this article that is claiming it’s bad to represent cartels as terror orgs as some loose indicator it is slim trying to push that narrative to benefit the cartels since I did see he owned 17% share in NYT?