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by Faith E. Briggs

People who have worked their whole lives contributing to this economy may find that the American Dream doesn’t include support for them in their older age.

Esmeralda Castro is all smiles as she walks gracefully through the Casa Boricua Senior Center in the Bronx. On all sides, small tables are packed with seasoned domino players. She’s lived within a twenty-block radius of the center since she first came to the Bronx in at age 19, following her sisters’ example. “In Puerto Rico everybody loves New York, without visiting it,” she says. “Because you hear and you see on TV. I said, ‘I want to go to New York, it’s so pretty.’” When she easily found a job as a day laborer in a zipper factory, she tied up loose ends in Puerto Rico and came back to stay. “At home I was making by that time $38 a month. I came here and I made the same amount in a week!”

Castro is now 73 years old, she spent her years working in clothing factories and stores until her last employer, Alexander’s Department Store, closed in and she retired. She now lives happily with the help of her social security and salsa Fridays at Casa Boricua.

With other seniors from Casa Boricua she recently reflected on her life though a musical production entitled “Ayer y Hoy.” A new initiative from the Department of Cultural Affairs brought a young dancer who wanted to pay homage to her grandmother’s legacy to work at the center, Milteri Tucker. Growing up as a little girl in Puerto Rico she remembers her late grandmother telling of her time living in New York saying, “I came in search of the American dream, the great American dream.”

Tucker says the reasons for coming to the US were the same among her “ladies,” as she fondly calls the women, including Castro, who learned the dance form bombazo with her at the center. “The general consensus is to find a better job and a better way of living,

Toward the end of the Cold War in the s, the Republican administration of conservative President Ronald Reagan greatly increased spending on U.S. international broadcasting to the Soviet Union and to other communist-ruled nations. Broadcasts to nations behind the Iron Curtain were carried out by the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL). President Reagan also increased spending on U.S. public diplomacy outreach abroad by the United States Information Agency (USIA). The purpose of many of these public diplomacy programs as well as U.S. government-funded broadcasts was to counter Soviet propaganda and disinformation.

The term “regime change” was not then in use, but the Reagan Administration worked toward replacing communist regimes with democratically elected governments by providing moral and in some cases practical support, such as printing presses, to the Solidarity independent trade union and democratic opposition movement in Poland. Only peaceful means were used to achieve “regime change” in Poland, both by Solidarity and by the Reagan Administration.

To make its various information programs more effective and more in line with its overall public diplomacy and information strategy, the Reagan Administration carried out management and personnel changes at VOA and USIA and appointed new heads of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

Many of these policy and personnel changes met with strong criticism from Left-leaning U.S. media reporters and commentators who accused Reagan of being a crude and dangerous anti-communist propagandist. His critics in the Democratic Party also said that he had no idea of how traditional diplomacy and public diplomacy should be conducted vis-a-vis the Soviet Union, the communist block and other nations.

The same criticism was leveled against Reagan&#;s personal friend, Charles Z. Wick, whom he appointed to be the director of the

Dagmara Domińczyk (doh-MEEN-chik, born July 17, ) is a Polish-American actress and author. She&#;s best known for her roles as Mercedès Iguanada in The Count of Monte Cristo (), Tania Asher in Rock Star (), Agnes Gebhard in Kinsey (), Marguerite in The Five People You Meet in Heaven (), Katrina on WB&#;s The Bedford Diaries, Suzanne in Running with Scissors (), Belva in The Immigrant (), Elizabeth Taylor in Big Stone Gap (), Stacy in Let&#;s Kill Ward&#;s Wife (), Karolina Novotney on HBO&#;s Succession, Ellen in The Assistant (), Erika Jensen on HBO&#;s We Own This City (), and Elle Sellwyn on AppleTV&#;s Hello Tomorrow! ().

In , she released her novel The Lullaby of Polish Girls.

She has been married to actor Patrick Wilson since and they have two sons. Her sisters are actress Marika Domińczyk and actress Veronika Domińczyk.

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