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Molino, one of the five "Puerto Rican representatives" working for SNAP, has become a staunch organization man. And with his mention of SEMCO, he identifies still another competing faction in the power struggle in the South...
...internal Puerto Rican affairs are concerned, both the Centro and SNAP have squared off, though not in unison, against another power in the South End on the matter of urban renewal...
First, SNAP got another visit. Seventy-five people, led by DeJesus, who has lived in the South End longer than almost any other Puerto Rican--18 years--stood in the street oustide SNAP's cramped offices and demanded that SNAP hire five Puerto Ricans. In September, three months later, the five began work...
SNAP's acquiescence has had unexpected and dismaying results for the Centro. Today Puerto Rican leaders still claim that they represent a united front aimed at organizing the people, but, in fact, competing centers of power are emerging and threatening that solidarity of purposes...
...South End Manpower Corporation, an independent off-spring of SNAP that functions as an employment agency, but wants to play politics. Black-power advocates control SEMCO. Charles Evans, a leader of the group, has changed his "slave name" to Chukuma Edozima. He is conducting a campaign to persuade Puerto Ricans that they are of African descent. Edozima obviously wants to unite all the South End's poor, as Mel King does. But he has outraged many people and has fanned the glowing embers of "Puerto Rican consciousness...