Example Sentences

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“Vengo de las barriadas, he visto noches en las que no había comida en la casa”, dijo.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Urban areas are rapidly expanding, and with them the poverty-stricken shanty towns of the continent�the villas miserias of Argentina, the favelas of Brazil, the barriadas of Peru.

From Time Magazine Archive