Roots Of Empowerment: Latino Politics and Culture
UnpublishedSeptember
1992
Volume:
26
Number:
2
Report
THIS IS THE SECOND OF TWO REPORTS ON Latin American and Caribbean life in the United States. In our first report, "Coming North," we focused on the process of immigration.
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Jeffrey Passel
While the Latino population of the United States is some-sshat more disrsed than it was ten years ago, it remains concentrated in a few states [see Table 11, and a few metropolitan areas. The Latino population reached 2 million in the 1990 Census count, an crease of 7.
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Judy Blankenship
At 9:30 in the morning on January 8,1988, 17-year-old Santiago Restrepo and his 14-year-old brother Andr6s left their home in a prosperous suburb of Quito in the family' s Chevrolet Trooper. It was summer vacation, and the boys were on their way to pick up a friend to take him to the airport.
Mary E. Kelly
The border town of Matamoros, located in northeastern Mexico across the river from Brownsville, Texas, was once a quiet ranching and agricultural community. Over the last decade, however, it has undergone a startling transformation.
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Earl Shorris
A small group of Dominican artists and intellectuals met in Manhattan in the closing days of 1989 to plan the attack. It seemed less than serious at first, an idea born over drinks and a little smoke in a dark room, whispered, enjoyed, explored over the sound of drums and an old piano.
Marta Lopez-Garza
THE FIRST MEXICANS IN LOS ANGELES arrived in 1781. Twenty-three adults and 11 children from Sonora, Mexico established a community called Nuestra Sefiora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, and a constant Mexican presence in Los Angeles has endured ever since.
Alex Stepick
WHEN ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN WON THE special election to replace Rep. Claude Pepper in 1989, she was celebrated as the first Republican ever to represent Dade County, the first Florida Congresswoman in over 50 years, the first Latina Congresswoman, and above all, the first Cuban American in the U.
Annette Fuentes
SOME OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING AND telling images of the 1989 mayoral campaign in New York City were the candidates' performances at the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade that June. City Comptroller Harrison J.
Mary E. Kelly
Proposals for two large toxic-waste dumps in Texas, both of which would be located within 20 miles of the Rio Grnnde,Bio Bravo, have spurred unprecedented binational enocern among governmental and non-governmental organizations alike. heinica1 Waste Management.
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BACK IN THE GLORY DAYS OF THE PANAMA invasion and the Gulf war, it became commonplace for cynics to comment that the United States had adopted a "designated enemy" foreign policy. In the effortless segaie from Cold War to New World Order, one villain after another was set up to absorb the righteous anger of the U.
Steve Ellner
The completion in 1990 of an asphalt highway connecting Ciudad Guayana in the northeast to Santa Elena de UairCn on the Brazilian border has encouraged more tourists tu travel to Venezuela's Amazon region. The tourism indthstry.
Steve Ellner
The states of Bolivar and Amazonas in southeast Venezuela had until recent years been all but ignored. Left to their own devices, freelance gold miners eked out a living from the thin, mineral-rich soil.