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Article: Emigration pressures Spain; Spain will spend more than $21 million this year in job subsidies to Latin Americans.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 21, 2002
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Byline: Sara B. Miller Special to The Christian Science Monitor
MADRID -- For 50 years, Cristina Barros lived in the same middle-class neighborhood in Cordoba, Argentina. But last year, she came to an agonizing choice: She would have to leave Argentina, or face penury.
Like thousands of other Latin Americans of Spanish ancestry, Ms. Barros returned to Spain - for the same reasons their forbears had once left it: to escape political and financial chaos.
"The situation was becoming desperate; I had no choice," says Barros. "I have two children and they have the right to grow up dignified."
This wave of reverse migration is posing ...