Miami Connection
No Miami or South Florida impact documented. González Barrera's business operations were centered in Mexico and Houston, Texas, not in South Florida.
About
Roberto González Barrera was born on September 1, 1930, in Cerralvo, Nuevo León, Mexico, and died on August 25, 2012, in Houston, Texas, from pancreatic cancer. He began his entrepreneurial career as a child, starting with shoe-shining and food sales before co-founding a corn mill with his father in 1948, which evolved into Maseca, the company that manufactures one out of every four corn tortillas sold in Europe, Asia, and Central America. He served as chairman of Gruma and was the majority shareholder and lifetime president of Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico's largest Mexican-owned private bank. González Barrera was recognized as one of the principal architects of Mexico's flour and tortilla industry modernization. He had no direct Miami/South Florida connection based on available information; his business operations were primarily based in Mexico with headquarters in Houston, Texas.