Word: barrio
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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. "The parish was the only institution in the city where we felt fully at home," he recalls, "fully free to express ourselves in our own language, our singing, our festivities, our worship." As rector of his city's historic San Fernando Cathedral for 12 years, Elizondo became a leader in bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service. His annual Christmas posada, for example, re-enacts the pilgrimage...
George W. Bush had a simple fiscal policy as Texas Governor: he called for meeting the people's "basic needs" and returning what's left to "the hands who earned it." But it didn't work that way for Ray Haros, a poor kid from Austin's barrio in need of health insurance. While Bush delivered $2.7 billion in tax relief, Ray got left out of the equation...
George W. Bush had a simple fiscal policy as Texas governor: He called for meeting the people's "basic needs" and returning what's left to "the hands who earned it." But it didn't work that way for Ray Haros, a poor kid from Austin's barrio in need of health insurance. While Bush delivered $2.7 billion in tax relief, Ray got left out of the equation...
Eventually, Bodega's forces try to recruit Chino. "It's about upward mobility," Bodega's right-hand man tells Chino. The temptation is hard to resist. "Why not us?" Chino asks himself. "If these dreams...take off, El Barrio would burn like a roman candle, bright and proud...
...whole focus here is the story," says Redford, who grew up the son of a Los Angeles milkman in a neighborhood sandwiched by Beverly Hills and the barrio. Those clashing cultures, mixed with an interest in jazz and the Beat scene, infused in him a lifelong, insatiable desire for untold stories in alternative voices...