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• n  a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
• n  an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country

• When Father Virgilio Elizondo was growing up in the west-side barrio of San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, he found the church to be a refuge.
• Looting and burning spread over a 20-block area along the boulevard, a main thoroughfare in the barrio where many of Los Angeles' 1,000,000 Mexican Americans live.
• I had a barrio there; I had paisanos there; there were murals and and taquerias, rancheras and piatas.

News & Articles

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• Joaquin Murrieta Park facelift part of revitalizing Barrio Hollywood
  TUCSON - Attempts to revitalize Barrio Hollywood on Tucson's west side have recently included an proposal to build a Grand Canyon University satellite campus on the site of the El Rio Golf Course.
  June 11, 2013 - KVOA Tucson
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  TUCSON - Attempts to revitalize Barrio Hollywood on Tucson's west side have recently included an proposal to build a Grand Canyon University satellite campus on the site of the El Rio Golf Course.
  June 11, 2013 - KVOA Tucson
• A Disco Ball Piñata and the KKK as Emerging Latino Art
  Fidel Castro, the KKK, and a disco ball piñata. Those are some of the themes in the minds of 37 emerging Latino and Latin American artists who are part of El Museo del Barrio 's biennial opening on Wednesday. A few of the pieces have some political connotation. Ignacio Lang, who is from Puerto Rico and lives in the East Village, is presenting a black Ku Klux Klan robe that he asked immigrants ...
  June 11, 2013 - WNYC New York Public Radio

Quotes

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• Guy Gabaldon in International Herald Tribune
  Being raised in the barrio, every day is a fight,Gabaldon said. "You're fighting to survive in the barrio and I think that might have had something to do with my personality, my makeup. I knew I was doing something that had never been done...
• Kinky Friedman in UT The Daily Texan
  I don't eat tamales in the barrio, I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto, I don't eat bagels with the Jews for breakfast,said Friedman, who is Jewish. "That to me is true racism."
• Beck in Kansas City Star
  Every barrio has a dump,said Rick Beck, a Christian missionary who visits the Tegucigalpa city dump each week to deliver food and prayer. "It's a way of living. The problem has to be attacked spiritually, physically and emotionally."