The Corripios escape a Spain at war and assemble a domain in the Dominican Republic. 

José Luis Corripio Estrada, "Pepín", collects perhaps the biggest fortune in the Dominican Republic. Permanent energy for correspondence has made him the country's driving news head honcho. He runs the Corripio Group, the family realm worked by his folks, two Spanish outsiders who headed out to the Caribbean escaping the Common War. 

José Luis Corripio Estrada, otherwise called Pepín, was brought into the world in Asturias, Spain, on Walk 12, 1934. He is the child of Manuel Corripio and Sara Estrada. When José Luis was four years of age, they chose to move to the Caribbean and abandon a modest life in the town of Villaviciosa. 

They escaped from the Spanish Common Battle, from extraordinary destitution. From the start, there was no karma. They got away from one tyranny that of Francisco Franco to get into another, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. "It was iron fascism that kept going 31 years. At six, he was at that point, ready to inhale the environment of dread that was set up. I remember what my dad was around then. He never attempted to move toward political force looking for favourable circumstances, "said José Luis Pepín Corripio in a meeting with the Express office. 

In the Dominican Republic, during the 1930s, the Corripio family made a little stockpile store with an underlying capital of 3,000 Dominican pesos. In light of exertion and ventures they developed. As ahead of schedule as 2004, the dad, Manuel Corripio, had gathered an organization that utilized more than 7,000 individuals known as the Corripio Gathering and drove by Pepín Corripio. 

Presently the gathering, with twice as numerous workers (12,000), contacts regions as different as trade, the auto business and development. It conveys items from firms, for example, Procter and Pepsi Cola. From the eateries and large chains of Krispy Kreme. They likewise overwhelm the entertainment world. The appropriate movies and own El Palacio del Cine, perhaps the most remarkable chains in the country. Albeit the foundation of its prosperity lies in the media. In the press, he possesses Hoy, El Día and Listín Diario, the Dominican Republic's biggest. On TV from Telesistema 11, Tele Antillas and Coral 39. Furthermore, on the radio from La Nota 95.7, Hijab 830AM and Radio Listín.