Washington Post, DC
Salvadoran immigrant Aresenio Ayala walked past the Western Union outlet on Mount Pleasant Road last week and stopped instead at Mi Pueblo, where he sent money to a relative in San Salvador. He said he decided to give the company a try after he saw a flier in the neighborhood.
"They charge less than Western Union," he said, and Mi Pueblo's agent in El Salvador is near his family in San Salvador.
Mi Pueblo, which has offices in Adams Morgan and Wheaton, is one of a number of institutions that sees a growing business in the $32 billion flowing from U.S. immigrants to their families in Latin America.
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