Word: hialeah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Little Havana in Miami, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Little Saigon in Orange County, Calif., Little Odessa in Brooklyn, N.Y. Monterey Park, Calif., was the first U.S. city to have a Chinese-born woman as mayor, and the five-member city council includes two Hispanics and a Filipino American; Hialeah, Fla., has a Cuban-born mayor; Delaware, a Chinese-born Lieutenant Governor...
...Researchers in conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...
...inches along 1-95, the area's main thoroughfare, six hours of the day, and downtown parking rates run as high as $6 for three hours. Despite the poor start, Metrorail still expects to open its second segment, a ten-mile extension to the largely Cuban community of Hialeah, on time this year. In addition, Miami is planning to have by 1985 a 1.9-mile-long "people mover"-automated trains that will shuttle 41,000 commuters daily in a loop around the city's developing downtown...
That effort seems well worth it to the boat people's artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being...