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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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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BARRIO – Doña Ángela, a 71-year-old grandmother living in rural Michoacán has surpassed the viewership of celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Martha Stewart on YouTube. Her channel “De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina” has over 4 million subscribers, far less than Ramsay’s more than 19 million and yet her videos get more views than both …
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BARRIO – Director and lead actor Michael B. Jordan announced that boxing star Canelo Alvarez is set to appear in Creed III. While he has participated in many big fights, this will be the first time Alvarez appears on the big screen as an actor. “Directing the legend himself @Canelo in Creed III. Can’t wait …
BARRIO – Formula 1 recently announced its largest calendar in history with 24 races set to go ahead for the 2023 season but that is a number that could rise. The Brazil Grand Prix is the only South American race in 2023 however that number could double if a Colombian race gets the go-ahead. The …
BARRIO — As a child, Lucía Solís watched her family bury a stash of cherished but prohibited cane sugar liquor, called viche, in the woods, fearful of police seizures and even arrest. Yet here she was this August surrounded by bottles of various types of viche, its liquid the colour of amber or cream or …
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BARRIO – Toronto has been asking; Who’s the young girl that Karol G brought up on stage with her during her show at Scotiabank Arena on Sept 18? We found out. Meet 11 year old Valentina Lopera from Toronto Ontario. Valentina’s uncle Esteban says his niece is a ‘fanatica’ del Reggaeton and that her favourite …
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BARRIO – The iconic Barbie brand just released three new dolls for Dia de los Muertos, which is celebrated early November. One of the dolls is a collaboration with Mexican fashion designer Benito Santos. Barbie designer Javier Meabe, who is Mexican American, described in a press release the “flood of emotions” he feels each year …
BARRIO – Bad Bunny met with Uvalde school shooting survivor Mayah Zamora backstage at his concert last week, less than a month after it was announced that his foundation was part of the efforts to build Zamora’s family a new home. The family wanted to move after Zamora discovered she lived only a few blocks …
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BARRIO – Manager Kevin Cash didn’t realize until about halfway through the Rays’ 11-0 win over the Blue Jays that he’d made history with the lineup he wrote out this past Thursday afternoon. And it didn’t hit catcher René Pinto until after the last out was recorded, when he was asked to pose for a …
