Word: alamillo
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...soaring $75 million Alamillo Bridge, part of $10 billion invested in the fair and new transportation facilities, is an inspired architectural monument. But to those who live in El Vacie's shacks, cubist contraptions of plywood and cardboard, it is an affront. After years of delay, the government only last week began to install 36 flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter...