Another reason is that entrepreneurs and professionals see the potential to make money. Jorge Salazar Carrillo, a professor of economics at Florida International University and director of the Center of Economic Research, says Miami-Dade’s Gross Domestic Output is currently at around $140 billion a year, which places it among the top 15 metro areas in the country, according to Salazar-Carrillo. The main driving force of economic output in South Florida is trade and the trade is with countries in Latin America. Miamis more recent Latino residents benefit from the success accrued by previous generations of Hispanics, particularly Cuban Americans, who started immigrating in large numbers after Castro came to power in Cuba.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:44:06 +0000
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