11/04/2021 – 8:46 PM (GMT-4)
Of the Cuban-Americans Florida is on the 35th annual list of the magazine Forbes of the richest people in the world by 2021.
The Sunshine State had a juicy entry on this year’s list, featuring 70 billionaires, which equates to an increase of at least 10 from the 2020 list.
The list of Forbes it is based on net worth, excluding fortune, 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 fortune of 1.7 billion dollars.
Pérez, the son of Cubans who lost everything after emigrating from Cuba, is one of the foremost Latin American businessmen in the United States. Nicknamed the King of South Florida Condominiums by The 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 worked 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 Colombia for a while.
The second Cuban-American on the list is Jorge Mas Santos, president of the Coconut Grove company MasTec, one of the largest Spanish 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 known opponent of Fidel Castro’s government and president of the Cuban-American National Foundation until his death in 1997.
His father taught him the importance of giving back to the community, supporting a variety of local organizations financially and defending human rights. He is the current president of the Cuban-American Foundation.
Listed as Florida billionaires, which includes the former president Donald Trump with a net worth of $ 2 billionThere are four women this year: Carol Jenkins Barnett, businesswoman, philanthropist, and heiress to the Publix supermarket in Lakeland, with 2,500 million; Charlotte Colket Weber, philanthropist and heir to Hobe Sound’s Campbell’s Soup, with 1.7 billion; Catherine Lozick, philanthropist and heiress to Swagelok pipelines, of Fort Lauderdale, with $ 1.6 billion, and Neerja Sethi, co-founder of the computer consultancy Syntel IT, of Fisher Island, with $ 1.100 million.
The 2021 richest list of Forbes It is headed by Jeff Bezos, who has a net worth of 177 billion, and who, while not of Cuban descent, brings Cubanness close thanks to his adoptive father, the Cuban Miguel Bezos, who raised him since he was four years old.
Also on the list is Michael Jordan, closely related to Cuba as he is married since 2013 to Cuban model Yvette Prieto, with whom he had a long relationship and gave birth to his twins Ysabel and Victoria.
In addition to being a former NBA star, Jordan is the majority shareholder of the Charlotte Hornets, with a net worth of $ 1.6 billion.