Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a subway stop from Harvard, the people of el barrio, the neighborhood, are playing out their roles in the largest wave of immigration in recent years, the wave of Latin Americans from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America which has swelled the United States Spanish-speaking population to an estimated eight to 12 million people. They are repeating the drama which built this nation, the drama of the immigrant. Like those who came before, they are finding these shores of promise to hold a mixture of reward and tribulation...
...Puerto Ricans of Cambridge come overwhelmingly from two small cities in Puerto Rico, Coamo and Jayuyah. They started to move here in the '50 s, drawn off farms in Puerto Rico by the boom-time of the Korean War. The first to come sent back for relatives until whole extended families had migrated...
...employers realized that Puerto Ricans could be hard workers despite language difficulties, the barriers to factory work eased, Santiago says. Currently Cambridge industrial concerns such as Nabisco and Polaroid, and the newer electronics companies such as Advent and Cambion all hire significant numbers of Spanish-speaking employees...
Santiago stresses the extent to which Hispanics live outside the Columbia Street area. "We don't want to create a ghetto, to have all puerto Rican people live in one project. We want people distributed around the city...
...them. Cambridge is not New York City, where over a million Spanish-speaking people have two UHF television stations serving their needs. But Cambridge can tune in on Boston-based Radiolanda 1600, an AM station featuring Spanish-language broadcasting in the bombastic announcing style of stations in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cambridge Hispanics also play in Boston's amateur soccer league, where teams like Hispanos Unidos and El Salvador compete against other immigrant and domestic clubs, with the league standings published every Thursday in The Boston Globe...