Word: saguesera
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Today approximately one-third of Bade County's 1.4 million people are Cubans. They live in widely scattered neighborhoods, including some of the city's finest, but they are centered in Miami's southwest quadrant in a section known as Little Havana or La Saguesera (a Spanish-English corruption of "southwest"). Throughout the county, the Cubans own some 8,000 businesses, including banks and construction firms, newspapers and shoe factories. Five Bade County banks have Cuban presidents. Nearly one-quarter of the county's Cuban families make more than $15,000 annually, and 40% earn more...
...lunch and a friendly game of cubilete (dice). A once famous Havana restaurant, Centre Vasco, has been resurrected on Miami's Southwest Eighth Street; its walls are adorned with jai alai baskets and its tables laden with steaming arroz con pollo and chilled sangria. The streets of La Saguesera bustle with fruit and vegetable stands, stores displaying religious artifacts, and cafes that serve jet-black Cuban coffee; at dusk the air is filled with the nostalgic beat of Latin music and the aroma of sofrita, the distinctive Cuban seasoning. Even the craft of Cuban cigar making is flourishing...
...Sets of Values. At least 50,000 of Bade County's Cuban-Americans were born in the U.S., and are proving remarkably adept at absorbing American culture. Teen-agers in La Saguesera may delight in the café con leche and mediasnoches (Cuban sandwiches) of the garish, mirrored Versailles coffeehouse, but they are equally at home in more anglo surroundings; fútbol (soccer) is popular, but so are béisbol and fútbol americano. "Being a Cuban-American is having two sets of values," explains Raimundo Sacre, 16, who was brought...
...contest between two Cuban-American candidates for the Republican nomination to a congressional seat last week provided an apt reflection of the prevailing spirit of La Saguesera's people. Miguel Carricarte charged that his rival, Evelio Estrella, could not speak English very well; Estrella charged om turn that Carricarte's Spanish was pretty feeble. Carricarte won easily. He is not expected to defeat veteran Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper in November's general election, but by 1976 or 1978, as increasing numbers of Sagueseranos become eligible to vote, it may be a different story...
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