Jaén’s Gas Tanker that Bills 800 Million with Petroprix: “I’m Excited About the Projects, Not the Money. I’ve Already Earned Enough”

El Pais

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

Manuel Santiago (Jaén, 1968) is spending a few days on the Mexican island of Holbox, from where he connects for the interview. The businessman, head of a family group that owns Petroprix low-cost gas stations, is in the Caribbean for work, supervising the works of the small hotel he builds. A whim? “It may be, but I try to make the whims profitable,” he smiles. Two decades ago this restless telecom engineer left his job in a multinational compan…