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...country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city's politically potent Cuban community. Nevertheless, assimilation is hardly complete: top management is still clubby, male and "Anglo...
Jesse Quintero, 28, and his wife Rosemary, 27, were born and raised in East L.A., but they met as students at U.S.C. They are teachers in the schools of heavily Mexican Bell Gardens. "I am a latino," Jesse declares. "I'll never feel Anglo." He glances at Rosemary, who is wearing her Camp Beverly Hills T shirt. "Sure," he says, "we listen to Anglo music, watch Anglo TV, go to Anglo movies. But we do it with other latinos...
...Quinteros live just east of Bell Gardens. Their town is Montebello (pop. 53,000), a well-tended middle-class suburb that in 20 years has changed from entirely Anglo to 65% Hispanic...
...When I was a kid," Jesse says, "you had to become Anglo to survive. For the kids today, it's hip to be latino." How hip? A New Wave rock band formed by U.S.-born Mexican Americans is called Los Illegals. Avance, a stylish new magazine written in English, has a young, upscale circulation of 35,000. But for every trendy Avance subscriber in L.A. there are at least ten who resist adaptation. Says L.A. Times Columnist Frank del Olmo: "There's a large segment within the legal population who see themselves as Mexicans. They don't necessarily want...
...racial tension seethes close to the town's tranquil surface. Thousands of migrant farm workers, mostly Chicano, are left unemployed each winter because it sometimes gets too cold to grow the apples and lettuce they pick for a living Chicano-Anglo animosity frequently bubbles over into violence, and even murder. For its size, the city has one of the highest crime rates in the country...