Lorenzo Zambrano began working summers at Cemex in the early 1960s when he was a teenager attending nearby Monterrey Tech.

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The present Lorenzo began working at Cemex during the summers in the early 1960s while he was a teenager attending nearby Monterrey Tech.

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In northern Mexico, along the border, industrial cities have benefited from economic openness, and companies in places such as Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez are producing a variety of increasingly high-tech products for export.

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