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.
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