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Peso Power: A unique program teaches Mexican immigrants how to develop home communities in Mexico

City Weekly

By Eric S. Peterson

Posted 01/24/2008

A frigid January night finds a steady trickle of Latino men, women and children shuffling into the Centro de la Familia in South Salt Lake, shaking snow from their boots and dreaming of warmer climes back home. But it's not just a longing to escapeUtah's winter chill that has got them thinking of home-they've come to learn business skills for themselves while raising funds to send back to their home villages.

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