This story was originally published in NowKalamazoo here. It is republished with permission in Second Wave through the Southwest Michigan Journalism Collaborative.
Even if you can’t smell the food when you pull up to the intersection of Portage and Washington in Kalamazoo’s Edison neighborhood, you’ll surely spot Tacos El Jefe’s bright red food truck: It represents the dream of immigrant Clado Velaques.
“It feels good to be an owner and moving forward,” says Valaques, 45, of his business, which is only a year old…