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Melly Barajas has become known as the “queen of tequila” among industry circles when she started hiring for her company’s launch in 2000 and only women showed up for the interviews. “That was my fuel to keep pushing when things got tough, that I trusted other women, and they trusted me,” she told Forbes' Maria Gracia Santillana Linares.

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