Latino Americans

Eligio Pena

Clip: Season 1 | 2m 38s

An immigrant from the Dominican Republic who fled the civil war and settled in New York, where he bought a supermarket in 1978 and now owns the Compare Foods supermarket franchise

Aired: 09/23/13

Rating: NR

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A Spanish language video page can be viewed here. Funding for LATINO AMERICANS is provided by CPB, PBS, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and The Summerlee Foundation

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