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Group aims to help Latino businesses get started
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Norma Hernández, president of the Northeast Georgia Latino Chamber of Commerce, mingles with guests on Thursday, May 17, 2018, during a networking event at Playa Azul. The chamber partnered with the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center to help unite the Latino business community. - photo by David Barnes
If nothing else, Carlos Figueredo is certain of one thing: He wants to be his own boss. “I knew college was not going to be for me,” he said. “But I didn’t want to be an employee all my life.” Owning a business is in the family DNA. His father, Daniel Figueredo, said he dabbles in a “little bit of everything,” from real estate to stocks to car repair.