Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alberto has balanced his financial needs with his desire for an education ever since he came to Boston from El Salvador 14 years ago. He came during the throes of a civil war to visit his sister. "I wasn't sure I was going to stay, but I knew there was that chance. It was a new world. The people weren't amigos. You'd talk to them, and they wouldn't answer." He worked to a high school diploma at Arrow High School in Brookline while washing dishes in Jamaica Plain. He then worked at the Newbury College dining...
...Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports there, new projects, and how the economy's going...
...working to improve the lives of the people of El Salvador attacked by his own government and media as a traitor? If even the El Salvadoran government recognizes that a person receiving the legal minimum wage lives in "extreme poverty," why are sweatshops permitted to exist...
...notions and with any transparency or responsibility that interferes with corporate profits. The rise of global sweatshops is just one effect of the rise of corporate power and of its globalizing reach. The WTO's kind of trade--trade that pretends to have no consequences--pits workers from El Salvador against workers from China in a race to see who can be the most exploited...
...Harvard is to stop enabling oppression in developing nations like El Salvador, it must join the Workers Rights Consortium of other concerned schools. This organization operates on the principles of full disclosure and transparency. Harvard's membership in the Workers Rights Consortium's rival, corporate Fair Labor Association only lends legitimacy to a wildly compromised cover-up attempt...