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No state rescue squad or security force had arrived at his barrio by Friday, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

In reality, she was a “working-class Mexicana from Mazatlan who fled north to reclaim a tiny corner of a Los Angeles barrio, Frogtown,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

Danny Haro, a Latino from East L.A., left his barrio and became a lawyer.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

“It was always about barrios, borders and bodegas,” she told NPR’s “All Things Considered” in 2006, describing what publishers and readers expected from her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

At the end of UCLA’s summer mountain camp, the counselors usually return to their sprawling Westwood campus, while their charges go home to the boroughs and barrios of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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

At least two barrios saw waters rise several feet, and municipal workers spent all night and morning rescuing trapped vulnerable residents, including carrying the bedridden elderly from their soaked beds, he said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

Mami’s mother had been one of fifteen children, and Mami had endless aunts, uncles, and cousins in the barrios that stretched like tentacles from the wide avenues and shady plazas.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago