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there’s now a bad bunny day in lA
BARRIO – City Councilman Kevin de León announced yesterday that he’s declaring Saturday October 1st as “Bad Bunny Day” in Los Angeles in honor of the Grammy-winning singer. De León’s motion — noting Bad Bunny’s cultural impact to the Latino community across the city, and that about half of Los Angeles’ population identifies as Latino — …
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cuba requests aid from USA after hurricane ian
BARRIO – Cuba’s government has made a rare request for emergency assistance from the USA after Hurricane Ian knocked out power to the whole island of 11 million people (according to reports). Hurricane Ian tore through the island nation on Tuesday, causing country-wide blackouts, flattening homes and destroying agricultural fields. Cubans have staged protests against …
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dominican republic erecting border wall
Haitians fleeing hunger and violence will soon be met with a 13-foot-tall border wall meant to keep them out of the neighboring Dominican Republic. The concrete and steel structure will stretch some 102 miles (164 kilometers) along the border of the Dominican Republic. In the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo, government officials diplomatically describe it as …
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Chile and Peru take case against ecuador to the court arbitration for sport
BARRIO – Sport’s highest court has been asked to judge a case that aims to remove Ecuador from the World Cup just 10 days before the team is scheduled to face host Qatar in the opening game. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has received appeals by the Chilean and Peruvian soccer federations against …
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Grupo Firme Breaks Attendance Record at Mexico City’s Zócalo
BARRIO – Grupo Firme, the Regional Mexican band, broke the attendance record at Mexico City’s Zócalo last Sunday September 25. The band played in front of a record crowd of 280,000 people, breaking the 2009 record of the late Mexican Ranchera legend Vicente Fernández. Fernández show had 217,000 fans, followed by Shakira in 2007 and …
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qatar spends $200 billion to host world cup of soccer
BARRIO – The tournament is set to start in just under two months yet Qatar is still far from ready to welcome the more than one million fans expected. As of March, there were only a reported 33,000 hotel rooms in the country, 80% of which had already been booked by FIFA for teams, officials, …
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Frank Rubio is the first Salvadorian-American in Space
BARRIO – NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two others launched aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September, 21 at 9:54 A.M.―making Rubio the first Salvadoran-American to reach space. Rubio was born in 1975 in Los Angeles, California to his Salvadoran parents. He was raised in El Salvador until the …
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