Word: centro
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...attaché takes me under her wing and introduces me to all the “right people” as I marvel at her grace, strength, presence and poise. Later in the summer, I wait by the side of the road for a bus back to La Paz Centro from Managua. As a van full of U.S. Marines drive by, they slow and salute their fellow American (me!) through the windows. I glow for weeks, despite the Marines’ clear ploy for female attention...
...early 1980s, Cambridge political leaders responded to turmoil in Central America by designating Cambridge a "sanctuary city," says Elena Letona, director of Latin American advocacy group Centro Presente...
Ricardo de Santiago-Carrillo, 34, who is confined at an immigration facility in El Centro, Calif., recalls the 1996 attack on his father that landed him there. "I remember seeing my hands covered in blood after I punched him," he says. De Santiago served time for that crime (and a few others that included drug abuse and threatening his family with a knife), and as a consequence may lose his permanent-resident status. After 26 years in the U.S., he is waiting to find out whether he will be sent back to Mexico, roughly 15 miles away. Fiddling with...
...With reporting by Dan Cray/El Centro...
...this involvement is particularly important to immigrant parents, says Elena Letona, director of Centro Presente, a Latino advocacy group...