Word: vivaldo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another immigrant points out class differences in political involvement. "Some of the Portuguese in Cambridge and Somerville are involved with politics, but I don't think the working people have gotten involved much," says Vivaldo Meneses, who immigrated to Cambridge five years ago, then moved to Somerville. "Because we can't talk over there, all the Portuguese are afraid of politics...
...experiences of Vivaldo Meneses, a welder and iron craftsman who came to Cambridge five years ago, illustrate the housing problems the Portuguese immigrants face in Cambridge. "We paid a lot of money in rent for a junk house when we first came here," Meneses recalls. "The landlord wanted to sell the house so he didn't want to do anything to it. I paid $110 a month and there was no good electricity or heat in the apartment. When I repaired the house myself, the landlord charged more rent. He said the taxes went up. Most of the Portuguese people...
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