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Example sentences for: barrio

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In the novel Maravilla, Laura Del Fuego shows la vida loca of the 1960s in the barrio of Maravilla in Los Angeles.
Arthur Rubel writes about the supportive social environment provided by the palomilla of young coming-of-age Chicanos in the barrio of New Lots in south Texas.
The neighborhood known as Cayo Hueso, just behind the Malecón, is a rough-and-tumble barrio once populated by cigar-factory workers.
. Concerning the pochos, the chicanos suspected that they considered themselves too good for the barrio but were not, for some reason, good enough for the Americans” (1971, 203).
The robust barrio weathered attempts to tame and tether it as part of the 1992 waterfront sterilization scheme, but it has mostly survived.