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Identify the Latin experience and how the community is founded while studying in higher education  TORONTO (Barrio) – Reporting to you live from the other side of finals. I know I have been out of this as of late. The reason was to understand the Latino experience in higher education and what it means to …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – El Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele has unveiled architecture studio FR-EE’s designs for a cryptocurrency-funded city planned to be built on the side of a volcano south of the country. Bukele revealed a model of the city in a tweet alongside the caption “#Bitcoin City is coming along beautifully” earlier this week. Set …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Chile maintains that Ecuador should be booted from the 32-team World Cup field. La Tri qualified for just the fourth time in its history (2002, 2006, 2014) and was drawn into Qatar’s group, where it is due to be the host’s first World Cup opponent ever. That is, unless Chile gets its …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Bitcoin fell below $26,000 for the first time in 16 months, amid a broader sell-off in cryptocurrencies that erased over $200 billion from the entire market in a single day. The price of bitcoin plunged as low as $25,919.33 Thursday morning, according to Bitstamp data. That marks the first time bitcoin has …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Lionel Messi was the world’s highest-paid athlete over the last year, according to the annual Forbes list released on Wednesday that had the Paris Saint-Germain forward ahead of the NBA’s LeBron James and Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo. With $130 million in pre-tax gross earnings over the last 12 months, Messi claims the …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – El Salvador’s government made its largest purchase by adding another 500 bitcoin on May 9. Bitcoin bull and millennial President Nayib Bukele announced on Monday, “El Salvador just bought the dip!” According to Bukele, the purchase was made at an average price of $30,744 per bitcoin — or about $15.5 million total. …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Ten of the top streamed Latin songs on Spotify in a few Latin American Countries. So interesting to see the difference. Enjoy. GUATEMALA 1. Provenza – Karol G 2. X última vez – Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny 3. Fuera del mercado – Danny Ocean 4. Lo siento BB – Tainy, Bad Bunny …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Yesterday Flixbus announced their cross-boarder service. This means that you can now jump on their bus from Toronto to New York. Why not? We checked today and it will cost under $80 for one-way. “Ontario is already one of our best performing markets in North America,” said Pierre Gourdain, Managing Director of …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – Anna Hauer and Amanda Allen scored two minutes apart early in the second half Sunday as Canada qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup with a 3-0 victory over Puerto Rico in the third-place game at the CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Rosa Maalouf padded the lead …

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TORONTO (Barrio) – A leading energy price expert says gas prices could go up another five cents across Canada if Russia decides to intensify its assault on Ukraine or declare all-out war come Monday. Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, says gas prices could go up an additional five cents per litre next …

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