[HN Gopher] Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk...
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       Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink
        
       Author : toss1
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2025-02-27 22:41 UTC (18 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mexicodailypost.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mexicodailypost.com)
        
       | toss1 wrote:
       | Near the end of the article, the cause is described:
       | 
       | >>Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim
       | could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later,
       | Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in
       | Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.
        
         | pier25 wrote:
         | And then:
         | 
         | > _An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his
         | projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of
         | 22 billion dollars, to companies in China and Europe._
        
       | mmastrac wrote:
       | > Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim
       | could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later,
       | Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in
       | Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.
       | 
       | Is there a source for this?
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | > 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
         | 
         | The linked NYT article in the reply-to was
         | https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/americas/mexico-car...
         | (archived: https://archive.ph/6Sn0Y), which doesn't mention
         | Slim at all.
        
         | pier25 wrote:
         | The cancellation of business with Starlink was announced in the
         | Mexican media weeks ago. See this article in Spanish:
         | 
         | https://expansion.mx/tecnologia/2025/02/26/america-movil-cor...
        
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