| 11/04/2021 – 20:46 (GMT-4)
from Cuban-Americans Florida is on the 35th annual list of magazine Forbes one of the richest people in the world in 2021.
Sunshine State had a juicy participation in this year’s list with 70 billionaires, which is an increase of at least 10 compared to the 2020 list.
List of Forbes it is based on net worth, which excludes assets that are not recorded in public databases.
The first Cuban-American on the list is Jorge M. Pérez, founder, president and CEO of The Related Group, with a net worth of $ 1.7 billion.
The son of Cubans who lost everything after emigrating from Cuba, Pérez is one of the most important Latin American businessmen in the United States. Nicknamed the King of Condominiums in South Florida by Wall Street Journal and recognized by the magazine TIME as one of the most influential Hispanics in the country.
Pérez was born in Argentina in 1949 because his father was working there at the time. In Cuba, his family owned a pharmaceutical company nationalized by the Castro government. Before moving to Miami in 1968, he lived with his parents in Columbia for a time.
The second Cuban-American on the list is Jorge Mas Santos, president of Coconut Grove MasTec, one of the largest Hispanic companies in the country with a net worth of $ 1.2 billion.
The billionaire is the son of the Cuban politician and businessman Jorge Mas Canosa, a well – known opponent of Fidel Castro ‘s government and president of the Cuban – American National Foundation until his death in 1997.
He learned from his father the importance of giving back to the community, thus financially supporting a variety of local organizations and defending human rights. He is the current president of the Cuban-American Foundation.
On the list of Florida billionaires, which includes the former president Donald Trump with a net worth of $ 2 billionThis year there are four women: Carol Jenkins Barnett, businesswoman, philanthropist and heiress of the Publix supermarket in Lakeland, with 2.5 billion; Charlotte Colket Weber, philanthropist and heir to Campbell’s Soup, Hobe Sound, $ 1.7 billion; Catherine Lozick, philanthropist and heiress of the Swagelok pipelines in Fort Lauderdale, with 1.6 billion, and Neerja Sethi, co-founder of the IT consultancy Syntel IT, in Fisher Island, with 1.1 billion.
2021 the richest list of Forbes It is led by Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of 177 billion and which, although it has no Cuban roots, brings Cubanness almost because of his adoptive father, the Cuban Miguel Bezos, who raised him when he was four years old.
Also on the list is Michael Jordan, who is related to Cuba like him married since 2013 to Cuban model Yvette Prieto, with whom he maintained a long courtship and procreated his twins Ysabel and Victoria.
In addition to being a former NBA star, Jordan is the majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, with a net worth of $ 1.6 billion.