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Posted on: February 18th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ People ] [ Eye Openers ] [ Rhode Island ]
Tags: border, Guatemala
Leonardo Cos Elias arrived illegally in America with the sweat-and-blood skills of a subsistence farmer. In his native Guatemala, he raised maize and beans in the highlands and traveled south to chop sugar cane. He could wield a machete but not a pen: he never learned to read or write in either Ki’ché — his indigenous Mayan dialect — or in any other language.
But in America, Cos found factory work at the helm of a complicated machine. It mangled him for life.
Through a temporary agency, Cos began working last year at Packaging Concepts Ltd. in Lincoln, a manufacturer of display cases and furniture. First, friends say, he swept floors. Then he worked at a computer-numerically controlled (CNC) router, a high-speed machine that can cut metals, acrylic and wood while simultaneously engraving — or carving — intricate designs.”*
*From: http://www.projo.com
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