#1244 - The Influencer




Latino USA show

Summary: <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a;">As a Mexican American boy living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Solomon Trujillo only dreamed of having what the other neighborhood kids had. And after becoming the first Latino chairman and CEO of a Fortune 150 company, the Republican businessman is now taking his influence from the corporate world into U.S media and politics. Want to know more about this influential Latino businessman? We bring you a profile. We also take you to the new Southwest, where author Ruben Martinez explores the economic and cultural contradictions of this desert America. And then we go mamboing—and bring you a story about some of the genre’s biggest fans—who happen to be Jewish. <p></p></span></p>