Word: cocina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roberto Barrera is out in the cold. "Todas las cosas en la cocina estan rotas," he says. Everything in the kitchen is broken. Shrouded in blankets, he is sitting on a brick fence across from Van Nuys High School. The school is putting people up, but he will not go indoors. As night falls and the temperature drops to 30 degrees, a rough rule has established itself: Anglos and blacks head for the shelters, while the fields and parks fill with Hispanics, mostly new immigrants, perhaps as many as 20,000. Many of them come from countries with a history...
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