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Peru to launch investigation after Messi’s absence from meet and greet ev …
Jan 30, 2025
Lionel Messi's absence from Inter Miami's Meet and Greet event in Peru led to fan disappointment and a formal investigation by Indecopi, Peru’s National Consumer Protection Authority, over potential advertising and consumer rights violations. Fans, who paid over 3,000...
El Salvador merchants no longer required to accept Bitcoin
Jan 30, 2025
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently agreed to a $1.4 billion loan deal with El Salvador, led by President Nayib Bukele. However, the agreement includes strict conditions on Bitcoin usage: private sector acceptance must remain voluntary, government...
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum sending letter to Google over Gulf of M …
Jan 29, 2025
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that her government will send a formal letter to Google after the company stated it would follow a U.S. government directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on Google Maps. This decision stems from...
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‘Griselda’ starring Sofia Vergara with Karol G coming to Netflix
Nov 30, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (MB) - “Griselda,” a series starring Sofia Vergara, will be coming to Netflix in January next year. The series is inspired by the life of the savvy and ambitious Griselda Blanco, who...
Indigenous Bolivian women, known as ‘Cholita Climbers’, break s …
Nov 29, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO - The “cholitas climbers” is a group of 14 Aymara climbers, many of whom went from being porters and cooks to climbers. Lidia Huayllas (50) was the pioneer. In 2015 she had the idea of...
From “siesta” to “reggaeton”: there are almost 2,000 Spanish words …
Nov 29, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (Dominican Today) - The new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the best reference of its language, contains 1,904 terms of Castilian origin. Among them are “barrio”, “fiesta”,...
Bad Bunny Sparks Backlash
Nov 29, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (NewsWeek) - Some people are not happy that Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny was named "King of Pop" by Forbes magazine. The singer and rapper— whose given name is Benito Antonio Martinez...
Forbes Calls Bad Bunny The New ‘King of Pop’
Nov 29, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (iHeartRadio) - Forbes unveiled its influential “30 Under 30” list, which shines a spotlight on the contemporary artists the magazine believes are the rising stars of the music industry and...
Amy Chalán, the first Kichwa Saraguro to graduate from Harvard
Nov 28, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (Ecuador Times) - Amy Chalán Vacacela, a young migrant with roots in the Chukidel Ayllullakta community, studied at Harvard University and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences,...
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