deaths
August 25, 2012
Roberto González Barrera, Mexican banker and businessman (born 1930)
Roberto González Barrera
Roberto González Barrera was a Mexican businessman. He was the chairman of Gruma, the largest producer of tortillas and corn flour in the world, and of Banorte, the largest Mexican-owned private bank in Mexico. Because of his prominent role in the expansion of Gruma, he was often nicknamed "El Maseco" or "Don Maseco", as well as the "King of Tortillas".