BREAKFAST AT THE WAFFLE SHOP, COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, WASH. D.C.

This is Bernardino from Honduras. He is an electrician working on the renovation of the Tivoli Theater on 14th and Park NW. He was enjoying a light breakfast of coffee and a tamale. We all talked about the violence in the area lately with the help of my friend and translator M. E. Sprengelmeyer, a Scripps Howard News Service journalist. He translated for me. "Th' marijuana an coca," was Bernardinos guess for the recent outbreak in latino gang violence in the Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.






[You going to eat that carrot?]