barrio

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

But Juanita, who had lived in Macún all her life, could tell me about the secret places in the barrio that even our mothers didn’t know about.

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

It is also known as La Colombia Chiquita because of its connection to the barrios in Colombia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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