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Hugo Acosta, the owner-publisher of CNY Latino — CNY’s only Spanish-language newspaper – is also a host of Radio Show in Spanish..! (Programa de Radio en Español..!).
CNY Latino About to Turn 20
Publisher learned from his mistakes and is celebrating nearly two decades in business, which now includes a montly newspaper, a weekly radio show, consulting and more By Stefan Yablonski
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istakes were made. Hugo Acosta almost quit — almost. Acosta, the owner-publisher of CNY Latino was born in Venezuela and came to America in the early 1980s. “In 1992, I started a local internet consulting business called H.A. Technical Services, which I sold when I began my publishing venture with CNY Latino,” he said. H. A. stands for
Hugo Acosta. After going through some rough times in his personal life at the beginning of 2003; after carefully reconsidering his current career conditions, and after consulting with some close friends, “I decided to embark myself into a new business venture that would directly link to my native cultural roots,” he explained.
He has a computer science background and had another business that he was running with his ex-wife. Then “things happened … things happen in life, you know. So I had to let it go,” he said. “Besides losing the business, I kind of lost my culture.” “Mi vida es como una telenovela [My life is like a soap opera],” he continued in Spanish. “I took what happened
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