Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Central and South American community thrives in the Valley

Many people think of Latino immigrants as all being Mexican, but this community is mostly from Central and South America.    - - Donna Poisl

By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times

It was a tough game that almost came to fisticuffs when one player fouled another. But in the end, it was the red-shirted Salvadorans who beat the Mexicans, 4-2, during a recent adult league soccer game at Delano Recreation Center in Van Nuys.

Giovanni Molina, the top scorer with two goals, celebrated at a sidewalk grill where the Nunez family was frying handmade pupusas, a doughy, cheese-and-bean-filled tortilla sold on every corner back home in El Salvador.
Click on the HEADLINE above to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

No comments: