Word: fanguito
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...Chevies, Opels, Consuls, Taunuses and Vespa scooters. In the old city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...
Tugwell and Muñoz also tackled Puerto Rico's desperate need for new housing. In San Juan, for example, handsome, tropical-style homes line many an avenue, but many are close to the dismal slums of packing-box houses like El Fanguito (Little Mudhole) that stretches two miles along the tidal flats. The government's answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary...
...Knees. Even if all Munoz' strength lay in his beloved jibaros, most Puerto Rican politicos concede that he would win. But his magic also works with some middle-class intellectuals, and with the slumdwellers of San Juan's malodorous El Fanguito (TIME...
Said a resident of El Fanguito last week: "When we came here, we had to wade through mud up to the knees. Munoz filled in the streets. Before he came into power, many people here lost their poor little homes because they could not pay their taxes. Now we pay no property tax. How shall I vote? For Munoz, all my life...
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