Forbes Magazine Butts Heads with Mexico
March 13, 2009 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Business
This month, Forbes Magazine released their list of billionaires , and the country of Mexico is not happy with one of the people included.
Number 701 on the list, at an estimated $1 billion, is Joaqun “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is Mexico’s most notorious drug lords. He’s allegedly responsibly for some of the most violent crimes in the country and is Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive.
Both Mexico’s president and attorney general have spoken out against the magazine listing him. Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora says that Forbes is “comparing the deplorable activity of a criminal wanted in Mexico and abroad with that of honest businessmen” and thus, defending crime.
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