barrio
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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
“Fernando wasn’t very dedicated to the people of his barrio — beyond his own family,” said Luna, the former league president.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
But more intensely than for most barrio children—because I did not live in a barrio—Spanish seemed to me the language of home.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The barrios of La Indepe used to be the margins of the industrial city, but now they are encircled by urban development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
The street housed a bunch of bars and the original Northgate Gonzalez market, right next to barrios.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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
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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