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Cordoba (14 January 2001). "Ernesto Martens Rebolledo: El gerente al rescate" [Ernesto Martens Rebolledo: Manager to the rescue]. Mexico City: Reforma. p. 16.
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In 1994, he became president of the board of Cintra (Corporación
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