Controy or Naranja is a Mexican brand of orange

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. Introduced to Mexico in 1933, it sometimes credited as being used in the first

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. For nearly a century, Controy was only available in Mexico. In 2013, Pura Vida Tequila Company of

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, acquired the rights to export Controy for sale in the United States. For legal purposes, they changed the product name to Naranja, which means "orange" in Spanish.

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