Luis Mendoza keeps on inviting me to South Florida. “I’m waiting for you here,” the 54-year-old Venezuela native tells me. “You’ve got to come see it.” By the end of the interview, I understood what he meant — the youth club project he’s helped build sounds uniquely impressive.

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