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Dreams do come true! Carlos Llaguno arrived to the city of New York in 1994 without any papers. What started as a one-year adventure turned out to sixteen years living in New York. As many Mexicans in this conditions, Carlos started from the bottom, working in a deli twelve hours a day, seven days a week and living in a tiny apartment shared with almost a dozen of other workers. With the help of a cousin, Llaguno started working in a restaurant called Les Halles, famous for having as a chef the tv star Anthony Bourdain. His first job was peeling potatoes, and although he had never cooked before, Carlos started ascending, making salads, working as a half cooker, chef until he accomplished executive chef. Llaguno is an example of the etic and hard work that makes you get far in life. Although he worked really hard, it was after 3 years when he started to feel passion of what he was doing in the kitchen. Now, Carlos Llaguno supervises more than 50 workers i