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Carlos's lounge: the candidates' mandatory stop

Laconia (US), Feb. 10 (EFE / EPA). - Most of the Democrats campaigning in New Hampshire (US) have been at the parties organized by Puerto Rican Carlos Cardona in his home in Laconia. Andrew Yang is the one who has been the most times, "he likes my food," jokes the Puerto Rican, who serves all rice with pigeon peas and chicken.TRANSLATION:"More than 100 people who came to see her and I said 'wow, this is something big we are doing'""I went on vacation and at that time my cell phone was not working, I was in Cartagena, Colombia, and when I returned I began to receive texts and missed calls, because there were candidates who wanted to come here and meet the people and the city that I was representing, the people that I talk about who have lost relatives during the drug opiod crisis that we have here""That crisis has affected everybody, I lost a brother-in-law, he was 25 years old and died of an overdose. For me it was very important to talk about that issue and what is happening here in the city, and I also know many people that I went to school who also died at a young age because of a crisis we could have avoided. The candidates wanted to come here and talk about it and other things, including injustices against gay people in the United States""I found myself in the middle of a Puerto Rican tradition because here we make the parties a bit different: we bring Latin food, Latin music. The candidates come and eat a little of our food, the people experience our culture""And seeing him so humble and fighting for poor people was something that moved me. He sat in that chair and when he saw me go through that door he said: 'Hello, are you Carlos?' and I said yes, and he said he wanted to talk about Puerto Rico"