Latino people have a long history in Wisconsin. Here`s how they`ve shaped the economy and found the American dream.

When Carlos Muñoz arrived in the United States in 1973, he was thinking only about vacationing.

Family members who lived in Aurora, Illinois, had been trying to convince him for some time to come to the United States and stay, but he believed he had a good job in Mexico. He did not want to move.

“All my family was here” he said. “I was the only one living in Mexico, and I had a steady job at the National Bank as an accountant.”

During that visit, his brother-in-law, Esteban de León, who worked as a supervisor at a factory, took him to a shoe store...
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