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Minority groups began the year with a display of unity last night as approximately 50 students from a number of organizations joined La O to observe El Grito de Lares, a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and history.
El Grito de Lares, which means "the scream of Lares," commemorates a brief Puerto Rican revolution against Spanish rule in 1868. Although the revolution was unsuccessful at the time, Puerto Ricans remember its leaders with great pride, speakers said.
The loan clubs are descendants of communal arrangements that originated centuries ago. In many countries, groups of people have long pooled their cash to allow members to bury their dead or to celebrate marriages. Modern-day clubs retain much of that social flavor. In a 1981-83 study of 50...
Compounding the crisis are the currency controls instituted by López Portillo, who unjustly blames much of his country's economic plight on sacadólares, wealthy Mexicans who have been sending their money out of the country to safer havens. The scattershot regulations restrict the amount of...
At noon the two sets of ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter'...