butterbean
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 Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject: In Boston, Hispanics press for cultural recognition |
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Reuters) - The grocers sell chili pods and sugar cane. Salsa dance rhythms boom from cafes, and people crowd into sidewalk restaurants for batidos, empanadas and other Latin delicacies.
Boston's Spanish-speaking Jamaica Plain neighborhood, which teemed with European factory workers in the 19th-century, is now the city's unofficial "Latin Quarter" -- and its residents are flexing their political muscle.
The city, one of America's oldest and still closely identified with the country's European heritage, elected its first Hispanic councilor, Felix Arroyo, in 2003.
Arroyo, a native of Puerto Rico, wants to change a half-mile stretch of Jamaica Plain's Center Street to "Avenue las Americas," one of several proposals he is resubmitting to Boston's City Council.
Flags representing each country in the Americas -- from the Caribbean to Central America, South America and Canada -- would fly from street corners in the spirit of the Avenue of the Americas in New York, Miami and El Paso, Texas, he said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/us_nm/usa_immigration_boston_dc
 Have these people LOST THEIR MINDS! This is NOT Peurto Rico, Havanna, Brazil or any other Latin American country. This is America for God's sake. |
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