KRISTI:
Carlos Ramirez Visits Washdon - by Kristi Schmidt
A particularly interesting visitor to Washdon this week is the Mexican multi-millionaire Carlos Ramirez.
For those of you who have not heard of Mr Ramirez, he is one of Mexico's richest men, with business interests in oil, banking and property. Señor Ramirez has had an interesting
and colourful business career, in which he has often been amazingly lucky.
The story of Pedro Aguilar is an interesting example. Señor Aguilar was a journalist who worked for a large daily newspaper in Mexico City. He found out that one of Mr Ramirez's companies sold oil at twice the official price, and a lot of other interesting information of this kind. By a strange chance, Señor Aguilar fell down the stairs at his house before he could write his article, and had to spend 6 months in hospital. That newspaper, by the way, now belongs to another Ramirez company.
