Word: barrios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Torres, who earned his nickname in the early 1960s for his speed in scurrying around East Harlem's housing projects to gather nominating petitions, complained bitterly about Badillo's organization in El Barrio...
...boarded a chopper with a Northeast Command colonel for a lightning supply and inspection visit to a forward company command post in a remote foothills barrio in Isabela province. As the scenery below us quickly changed from the lush lowland rice fields to the forbidding forests and gullies of the Sierra Madre highlands, the pilot climbed to 2,000 feet, respectfully out of range of Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded...
...villagers gawked and giggled at the activity, assembled en masse before the thatched huts. At first there seemed to be no sign of the troops holding the barrio. Only after spotting the floppy jungle hats, ubiquitous badge of counterinsurgency, could one distinguish them from the villagers. They were stripped to the waist, dangling their M-16s with that insouciance which seems universally to characterize men in jungle combat. With the chopper unloaded and the formalities exchanged, we took off again. The whole visit, one small episode in the campaign, had lasted less than three minutes...
...Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound in a meadow in front of Somoza's El Retiro residence, a team of 50 Cuban doctors and paramedics worked in the densely populated Managua barrio of Máximo Jérez. The result was that while U.S. medics were seeing 250 patients per day, Cubans were treating about...
...Mexican-Americans, El Monte is a step up out of the East Los Angeles barrio. Explains Richard Mendez, 31: "We moved here from East Los Angeles because it is a better neighborhood. Life is better here. The schools are cleaner. There is not so much trouble." For others, El Monte is a way station en route to something else. "We get them coming both ways," says Dick Naumann, 56, who runs a women's clothing store. "Those who are coming from other parts of the country and those who are leaving. Those who are going up in life...