Word: barrio
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...course, eventually change their minds as they come to realize that jobs in their home countries still pay next to nothing when available at all. Still, the process of deciding to stay can take years, and meanwhile, the immigrants have little incentive to put down roots outside the barrio...
...Nicaraguan government evidently feels that its military presence close to the Honduran frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...
Most of the dead had been so badly burned that they could not be identified. Often nothing remained but charred bits and pieces. Rescue workers brought out the remnants in plastic bags. By Tuesday evening, 272 coffins were taken to the cemetery in the nearby barrio of Caracoles, where Caterpillar tractors dug two trenches about 200 ft. long and 10 ft. deep. The coffins were stacked in the mass grave, covered with lime and then buried. A crowd of 10,000 clutched flowers and murmured prayers...
...Chinese have "solved" this problem by making it illegal for peasants to move to the cities. Shanghai may have no "squatters living in shacks," but there are hundreds of millions of peasants in hill and mountain areas where conditions are far worse than those encountered in a Mexico City barrio...
There was Light Flyweight Paul Gonzales, 20, for example, 106 Ibs. of controlled barrio macho with an elegant command of the ring. Favoring an injured right arm, Gonzales disposed of his Venezuelan opponent in the semifinals by scoring repeatedly with a classic left jab. He won his final in a walkover when his opponent, Salvatore Todisco of Italy, turned out to have broken a thumb in a previous bout. Ten years ago, Gonzales was running with the violent gangs of predominantly Hispanic East Los Angeles. Taken in hand by Sympathetic Cop Al Stankie, Gonzales emerged as a home-town hero...