The richest in Venezuela according to Forbes
To be on this list you must have more than 1 billion dollars in assets
The Venezuelan government recognized that they stole more than 30000 million dollars of Cadivi (insurance was much more), with this we could think that there are many Venezuelans in the Forbes list with this money that was stolen and apart that is the country with the reserves of the world's largest oil But no, there are only two Venezuelans who appear on the list and I personally believe that it is because many of the millionaires in Venezuela are corrupt and rob the country and this forces them to have frontmen to hide their wealth and that is why they do not They are on the Forbes list.
1 ) Juan Carlos Escotet
Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez (1959, Madrid, Spain) son of Spanish immigrants who were eradicated in Venezuela after World War II, could be said to be of humble origin but this did not prevent him from amassing his fortune in a short period of time currently is president of Banesco Internacional, which has a presence in Venezuela, Spain, the United States, Panama, Puerto Rico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France. Escotet appears in the Forbes list of 2017 of position 501 of the billionaires of the world with a sum of 3700 million dollars. He is the Venezuelan who has had the most economic growth, in just 30 years he went from being a common citizen to the richest man in the country
2) Gustavo Cisneros
Gustavo Alfredo Cisneros Rendiles (Caracas, June 1, 1945) son of Diego Cisneros, a Cuban emigrant who managed to consolidate the family business in Venezuela, Gustavo Cisneros took the reins of the family business at the age of 23 and since then has dedicated himself to expanding it internationally , the Cisneros family was first on the list of the richest families in South America in 2006, currently living in the Dominican Republic. Gustavo Cisneros is in the position 1468 among the richest people in the world with a sum of 1400 million dollars. We can notice that his fortune has diminished considerably since he came to have more than 4000 million dollars and hard for more than 10 years as the richest person in Venezuela
The big loser? or the great fighter?
Lorenzo Mendoza
Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez (Caracas, October 5, 1965) son of Venezuelan businessmen Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Quintero and Leonor Giménez de Mendoza, In 1992, Lorenzo Mendoza assumed the executive chairmanship of Empresas Polar, a conglomerate made up of more than 40 companies with close to 31,600 employees
Lorenzo Mendoza became the second richest person in Venezuela with more than 3900 million dollars, since he assumed the presidency of polar companies his motto was reinvestment and believe in Venezuela (Made in Venezuela), the profits and growth of the company increased exponentially in the years of oil bonanza, plus the help (unintentionally) that Chávez received by expropriating part of the few companies that made him compete by sending them to the public sector and destroying them, leaving the way clear to Lorenzo to form a monopoly in the sector of your companies.
But after this bonanza came the problems, suppliers began to delay shipments and limit the credit lines of the raw material due to payment delays, these payments had to be made by the Venezuelan state since it controls 100% of the currencies destined to raw material.
That's where I think "Lorenzo the great fighter or the big loser" because with money from the company he started importing raw material waiting for the state to recognize him and the last complaint was that the government still owed him almost 500 million dollars . In turn, movable and immovable property of Venezuela has had a big fall in its price in dollars and as if this were not enough the turnover of its companies in Venezuela have fallen abysmally (in dollars) because the gap between the The dollar that controls the government and the dollar that companies can access (the black dollar) is getting bigger every day.
Finally, perhaps the biggest mistake of him was not to internationalize his companies in an aggressive way during the good times (something that Juan Carlos Escotet did) although the polar companies entered Colombia when they were already beaten monetarily apart from the Colombian market. much more competitive than the Venezuelan and you have not allowed them to have perhaps the expected success in that country, without a doubt Lorenzo if he bet almost all his letters in Venezuela and for now he is losing, after only 5 years his fortune has fallen more than 3000 million of dollars and I am out of the list of the richest in the world.
Here you can find my previous post
The richest people in all of history
Top 5 of the richest in the world
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Regards !
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Great post!!!
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Hola Hendersonp, gracias por el aporte, ya te estoy siguiendo! Si me pudieras seguir sería genial,
Espero que agregues contenido pronto para leerte!
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