MP Mexico News Staff

Forbes, the magazine of the business class, has released their annual list of the world’s richest folks. Warren Buffett (related to Jimmy, so we’re guessing he’s a good guy) tops the list at $62 billion, which, and we digress, is the tab for 5 months of Iraq war costs to the U.S. taxpayer. Mexico’s I-sell-everything Carlos Slim moved ahead of Bill Gates at # 2, with $60 billion.  But he is not the only Mexican to make the billionaire cut. Alberto Bailleres, chairman of Industrias Penoles, is # 85 in the world with $9.8 billion.

The rest of Mexico billionaires are:
#3  German Larrea Mota-Velasco     $7.3 billion     Grupo Mexico
#4  Ricardo Salinas Pliego                   $6.3 billion     Grupo Electra
#5  Jeronimo Arango                           $4.3 billion     TV Azteca
#6  Isaac Saba Raffoul                         $2.1 billion     Bodega Aurrera
#7  Roberto Hernandez                       $1.7 billion     Former CEO Banamex, Resorts
#8  Emilio Azcarraga Jean                  $1.6 billion     Grupo Televisa
#9  Alfredo Harp Helu                         $1.6 billion     Slim’s cousin, DF baseball team
#10Lorenzo Zambrano                       $1.5 billion      Cemex CEO

Notably absent from the list are the drug cartel bosses, who presumably don’t divulge that information. For the complete Forbes list, with profiles, click to http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html