barrio
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After months of preproduction, “Barrio Triste” was shot over five days in the barrio of El Paraíso, an often-maligned informal settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
In that same barrio, Flores raised three children with her first husband, Walter Gavidia, a police detective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
It was a tough start though as he left his family's home in a barrio in Colombia's second-largest city Medellin to pursue that dream.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
She also made attempts to pass herself and her children off as Spanish or French as they moved from barrio to barrio, living what Mr. Belafonte would call an “underground life.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
It was as if whatever happened in the barrio was conveyed in the breeze to be picked up by whomever was alert enough.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Their continued refusal to erect a memorial to the barrios upon which Dodger Stadium was built contradicts the spirit of a city that wants to grapple with all of its history, comfortable and not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
“I have barrios up here and I’m willing to do my part,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
They are the champions of the barrios, the favelas, the slums.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
When, for example, Mexican-American students began to proclaim themselves Chicanos, they taught many persons in the barrios of southwestern America to imagine themselves in a new context.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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