Word: zavaleta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, are the first of a score or more twin towns strung along the frontier. The poverty that prowls much of the country's southern border like a hungry coyote sits back on its haunches and howls in Brownsville. "This is the poorest part of the U.S.," says Tony Zavaleta, a Brownsville sociologist. "We have whole suburbs without electricity, sewerage or running water." Across the bridge in Matamoros, where not even the poorest of the poor get food stamps, Indian women work a line of cars for coins as their barefoot children play on the sidewalk...
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