barrio
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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
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
I drop Mama off at the cHnica to get extra doses of Papa’s medication, and I head for the barrio.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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