Carmen Irizarry reaches the District of Providence

The Dominican Carmen Irizarry, employed a hotel in Rhode Island, is the new face of the Council of the city of Providence with the support of several trade unions but above all, for his tenacity not be expired.

Irizarry is the new Councillor since late November, where it has joined to the also Dominicans Davián Sánchez and Sabina Matos, in a city where the Mayor, Angel Taveras, also dominicano.

Also State representative Grace Diaz and Senator Juan Pichardo are quisqueyanos.

"This is not a victory for me, but for the working class, for those who believe that the difference can be done," said Irizarry, a woman of contagious joy, who told with the support of a coalition of public and private sector unions, including Unite Here, comprising employees of hotels and restaurants, which represents in its employment.

"As my mother"
"I am a fighter like my mother, Angela" u000a"Núñez, she taught me to be a warrior", said Irizarry on their progenitor which took her to live in Providence, from the Dominican Republic, when he divorced and stayed alone with his three children, now 29, 22-18.

After winning a primary five aspiring to the nomination of the Democratic Party, Irizarry beat in the November elections the Republican Christian Chirino, a protrabajador progressive message, pro immigrant and pro-American.

Irizarry left his country for nineteen years, with her daughters, then minors, in search of better living conditions for all three, and settled in Rhode Island, where they lived his brothers and his mother.

The problem of English
"It was very difficult when I came to learn the language, which for us (latinos) is very complicated, I had many problems to get a job." "I started in a factory and later at the Westin hotel, where I am 17 years ago," he recalled u000aCastillo, who works aseando rooms, what said be proud because it is the job which has allowed it to feed to their daughters.

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