Carlos Slim Domit, the eldest son of Carlos Slim Helú, chairs the boards of América Móvil and Grupo Carso, companies of the conglomerate his father founded. Patrick Slim Domit is vice president of both. Marco Antonio Slim Domit chairs Grupo Financiero Inbursa.
In November 2025, the magazine Expansión listed these three sons of Slim among the 100 most important business leaders in Mexico.
Before the 2024 general election, the Center for Public Opinion of the Universidad del Valle de México surveyed Mexicans aged 18 to 29. According to Expansión Política, 85.6 percent said they would vote for a candidate who convinced them, whatever the candidate’s party. The other option in the question was to vote for a party, whatever its candidate.
At the retailer Elektra, the jefes de cartera, the managers of the credit portfolio, visit customers who bought on credit in their homes. In 2011, the magazine Expansión reported that they go out every day, Sundays included. One of them, Jorge Alberto López, told the magazine: “Hay que saber a quién darle crédito” (One has to know whom to give credit to).
He judged applicants partly by the order and cleanliness of their homes. Elektra also scores applicants with a points system.
Article 39-A of Mexico’s Federal Labor Law allows a periodo a prueba, a trial period, in employment relationships of indefinite length or longer than 180 days. It may last no more than 30 days. For management positions and for specialized technical or professional work, it may be extended to 180 days. If the worker does not show the required skills, the employer may end the relationship without liability.
Article 39-B adds a separate relationship for initial training. It may last no more than three months, or up to six months for management and specialized technical or professional positions.
The Federal Law of Workers in the Service of the State governs employment in the federal government. Its Article 6 says that new employees do not become inamovibles, protected from dismissal, until after six months of service “sin nota desfavorable en su expediente” (without an unfavorable note in their file).
Article 13 of Mexico’s Agrarian Law defines the avecindados of an ejido, the residents of the land of an ejido. They are adult Mexicans who have lived on the ejido’s land for one year or more.
Residence alone is not enough. They must also be recognized as avecindados by the ejido assembly or by the competent agrarian court.
In some Indigenous and rural communities of Mexico, members of the community rise through a ladder of offices called the sistema de cargos. In 2005, Hilario Topete Lara described the system in Dimensión Antropológica, a journal of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
He writes that the system was not found everywhere. The offices are ordered by rank. Terms usually last one year, or at least a short time, with no reelection. The officeholders receive no pay.
The service is costly, and it brings great prestige in the community. A person who has reached the top is considered a pasado or a principal.
In Mexican Spanish, usted is the formal word for “you.” The Diccionario del español de México, of El Colegio de México, says that it shows the respect owed to a person with whom one has no social acquaintance, and the courtesy and formality shown toward an authority or a person of different social position.
Tutear means to address someone as tú. The dictionary’s example reads: “Nos tuteamos desde jóvenes” (We have said tú to each other since we were young).
A 2026 study of educated speech in Mexico City, published in UNAM’s Anuario de Letras, calls tú the form of address of closeness, solidarity and confianza.
In February 2025, the newspaper El Imparcial of Hermosillo wrote about the abarrotes, the small grocery stores of Mexican neighborhoods. The sociologist Alipia Avendaño Enciso described them as places where everyone knows each other and everyone talks. According to the article, seeing the same person for years means that “se genera confianza” (trust is built).
A Mexican citizen who has no identification with a photograph can still obtain a voter card from the National Electoral Institute (INE). The applicant may present dos testigos, two witnesses. According to TV Azteca, one witness must be registered in the same municipality and the other in the same state, and each may act as a witness only four times in 120 days.
At least one municipality does something similar. In Temixco, Morelos, a constancia de identidad, a certificate of identity, requires two witnesses, each with a copy of an INE card. The first witness must be a close relative who lives in the municipality.