Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá and his brother Fernando gets the bulk of their wealth from the 2016 sale of their drug manufacturer Rimsa, which it sold to Tel Aviv-based Teva Pharmaceuticals for $2.3 billion.

Leopoldo was the executive president of the privately-held Mexican company before the sale.

Their father founded the business in 1970 as a pharmaceutical distributor before expanding into manufacturing.

At the time of the sale Risma was known for a slew of patented products, most notably its fixed-dose drug combinations.

Following the sale, Teva sued Leopoldo and Fernando claiming fraud and a breach of contract. The charges were mostly dismissed; the parties eventually settled for less than $200 million.

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The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá

Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.

The immense fortune of Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá, linked to Healthcare and 'Pharmaceutical', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 11 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 0.7 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.

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