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is a strange place of sturdy, blond, red-haired, and unusually thrifty and prosperous peasants. In the streets there are no children playing 'cascaritas', nor police officers; There are no pints or election banners, no trash, and no grocery stores on every corner. There is a
Salesian convent, three schools, the Casa de Italia, a library, the presidency, a sausage, cold meat, and cheese shop, and a couple of cafes. There are two Banks, a fleet of relatively new cars, concrete paved streets, and stables and carpentry in the backyard of each house. It is the town of the "gĂĽeros" (local nickname of 'Italians'), 2,700 inhabitants, descendants of the 424 immigrants who arrived in 1882.
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Although the city of Puebla has grown so far as to almost absorb it, the town of
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