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As much of Europe and Asia shut their doors to Americans in 2020, Mexico, which adopted few COVID-19 restrictions, was one of the few places where gringos were welcome.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022

“Finally, it was time to show that I could also do my songs, and that’s when the gringos contacted me through my internet pages,” Carballo said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022

In Mexico, the inside joke is to tell gringos that the “mole” sauce on their chicken is made from chocolate and not the real ingredient, blended Mexican mole lizards.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2018

In a typical year in the 1980s, American authorities recorded dozens of missing gringos in the region, none of them likely to turn up in a morgue.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2014

For Manolo, I lifted out the bad news like a fish bone, and gave him the promising tidbit—that the gringos were working with a group to slaughter the goat for the picnic.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez