Meanings
- informalMexico, in which much of the economy and daily life is controlled by tycoon Carlos Slim Helú.
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Through a sprawling empire of more than 200 companies – he has said he has "lost count" exactly how many – which encompass banking, retail, airlines, mining, printing, construction, restaurants and particularly telecoms, he has developed an economic stranglehold on his native country so vice-like that a new word – Slimlandia – had to be created to describe it.
2010 March 12, Tom Leonard, “Meet Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph
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Slimlandia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Slimlandia
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