... -called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. Puerto Rico was a poor island since the day of its foundation by Christopher Columbus in 1493. "Puerto Rico's residents have arbitrarily distorted the political and economic administration of the Island for almost five hundred years" (Bourgois, 48). Puerto Rico had never had a prosperous economy and was always easily ... due to poverty. For example, as stated by a philanthropic aid society, "Basic requirements for even minimal living [are] lacking the looting ...

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