Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fled Latvia in 1945, the same year Reporter-Researcher Victoria Sales left the German- occupied city of Danzig, where she was born. Copy Processing's Lily Eszterag and Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo fled Hungary after Soviet troops crushed the 1956 revolution. A different upheaval, this one in Cuba, brought Reporter-Researcher Nelida Gonzalez-Alfonso to the U.S. in 1959, followed by Copy Processing's Osmar Escalona and Raquel Prieto and Reporter- Researcher Cristina Garcia...
Among the area's financial executives is Yvonne Santa Maria, who fled Cuba in 1963 aboard a Red Cross flight and now is president of Ponce de Leon Federal Savings and Loan in Coral Gables (1984 assets: $27.8 million). Santa Maria, who left behind a small family fortune in Havana real estate, attended night school and job-hopped among several banks before being asked by a friend in 1980 to help launch Ponce de Leon. Says she: "I am extremely, I mean to the utmost, thankful to the United States...
Among the area's clothing manufacturers is Antonio Acosta, 40, owner of Tony and Toni Fashions in nearby Hialeah. It makes sportswear and has annual revenues of about $500,000. Acosta, who left Cuba for the U.S. at 16, headed for the garment district, one of the few sources of jobs for Cuban newcomers. Says he: "When I came to Miami in 1960, I didn't speak any English. I had no money and no job. I started as a sweeper, cleaning the factory." After mastering various industry skills, Acosta sank his savings into a garment- cutting service...
...Ivan Quintanilla, 9, who just finished fourth grade in Miami, bilingual education has meant learning flawless English in the two years since he arrived from Cuba. He has also been able to keep up to grade level in his courses through a mix of his native tongue and English. "When we are in the Spanish part of our studies we all speak Spanish," says Ivan. "But when we are in the English part or in recess no one speaks Spanish." He concludes, "You must speak English if you want to have friends and be happy...
...name. "Ponce de Leon christened it, and in Coral Gables the streets have Spanish names. So we deserve the place. Whenever we had trouble in Havana, we went to Miami, and Miami is very, very important for us. We don't feel like immigrants." Padilla certainly does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida. "The U.S. is the seventh-largest Spanish-speaking nation in terms of population," he says, "and I think that will enrich the country. The present...