Word: santiagos
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...dusk in downtown Santiago last week, cheering throngs gathered outside the Diego Portales building to celebrate the lopsided 75% vote in favor of Chile's ruling military junta in a hastily called referendum. A euphoric President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte termed the results "magnificent," and pledged, without noticeably dampening the mood of his supporters, that "there will be no more elections for ten years...
...rightist youths chanted insults outside the homes of Christian Democratic Party Leaders Frei and Andres Zaldivar, and Zaldivar's home was stoned. More chilling perhaps were Pinochet's attacks on civilian politicians and his disdain for democratic reforms. Borrowing a military metaphor, he told a cheering Santiago crowd: "Now we have placed the artillery. This battle, which had been a withdrawal, has been transformed into a battle of annihilation." In his gloating victory statement, he addressed his civilian critics: "To them I say, politicians, it's all over for you. Today Chile is different...
...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...
...same time that some companies began to hire Hispanics, however, they also began a policy of replacing non-immigrants with immigrants at a lower wage, according to Santiago. Hispanic workers were willing to take lower pay for the same job, having few alternatives, Santiago says. Unions were lax in protecting the wage standard of Hispanics. Exploitation of the workers resulted as it had in previous years with other immigrant communities, he says...
...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...