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You might have missed the news late last month announcing the death at age 78 of Gustavo Cisneros. He was the wealthy co-founder of TV network Univision and an advocate of free enterprise who controlled a baseball team and a beauty pageant, among other valuable assets. Cisneros died in New York, but he was a native of Venezuela, just like the 20,000-plus migrants who have flooded into Chicago since 2022 — upending the administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and creating scenes of despair on the city’s streets and in shelters. It may seem incongruous to connect a rich media mogul with t…