Word: barrio
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...said, "Carry her." (groaning and laughing) I would have gladly waded in, but here I was in the arms of one of his security men. I was so angry and thought, Gosh, the least he could have done was carry me. We slept that night in one of the barrio homes that didn't have a bathroom, and I said, "Ninoy, you know I really have to go to the bathroom." And he said, "There's a pineapple can." (great laughter) I said, "Oh, no! There's nothing else in the house?" And he said, "No." Later, he said...
Gang violence, a scourge of ghetto and barrio life in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York for decades, erupts with numbing regularity in America's biggest cities. But these three gang-related murders -- committed in Jackson, Miss., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta respectively -- mark the emergence across the American South of organized teenage gangs inspired by models in the North and West...
However routine, the surprising landslide enraged many P.A.N. supporters. Stores across the state closed down for a day, and nearly 10,000 people gathered in the city of Chihuahua's main plaza while Francisco Barrio, P.A.N.'s candidate for governor, urged them to block roads and boycott progovernment newspapers...
...This is angry, aggressive songwriting, too deft ever to be dogmatic, too melodic ever to turn strident. Lawless Avenues, co-written with Jorge Calderon and driven home hard by Jim Keltner's full-torque drumming, is the album's centerpiece, a contemporary street epic set in a Southern California barrio, where none of the characters get a chance to dream or a clear shot at a fair shake. It is a truly spectacular song, fired by a heart that is still romantic and forged by a political spirit that will accept no alibis...
...Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely to remain the mass grave that nature fashioned with such awful force...