Eva Gonda de Rivera is a Mexican

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heiress and businesswoman. Along with her daughters, she owns a major stake in the

FEMSA Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the la ...

beverage corporation, which operates convenience stores and bottling plants across Mexico and Latin America. Gonda was married to

Eugenio Garza Lagüera Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In ...

until his death in 2008. Her net worth in 2019, according to ''

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'' magazine, is US$6.2 billion. Born in

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

, Gonda earned a bachelor's degree from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and Mixed-sex education, coeducational private ...

, where she met Garza Lagüera. They were married in 1957. Gonda lives in Monterrey. She has five children.

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