L.A. Immigrants Push City Officials To Name Neighborhoods After Their Home Countries
*Tip O’Neill is credited with coining the phrase “all politics is local.” I’m not sure if Little Venezuela is what he had in mind, but the spirit of the phrase rings true. While the country at large hunkers down in an immigration reform debate, Latino communities in Los Angeles are leap-frogging the issue and carving their piece of the Latino-country-of-origin idea … on a map. Paseo Colombia anyone? VL
Neighborhoods with names like Chinatown and Little Italy are commonplace to urban dwellers across the country, but one would be hard-pressed to recall a neighborhood with a moniker from a Latin American nation.
Latino activists in Los Angeles, however, are pushing to change this apparent disparity.
The Latino Economic Empowerment Round Table wants to have neighborhoods like Peru Village, Little Venezuela, Paseo Colombia, Guatemalan Mayan Village and Oaxacan Corridor officially added to the city’s map.
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