colonia
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Origin of colonia
< Mexican Spanish: newly built or settled district of a city; Spanish: plantation, colony
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Noemi Hernandez, 56, paid $22,500 in 2001 for a lot in a small colonia called Salida del Sol.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
To capture life on the border, a Times reporter and photographer rented a house in the colonia half a block from the Rio Grande and lived there off and on for four months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2018
The two of them owned a small butcher shop in the colonia.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2018
More than 40 percent of colonia residents live below the poverty line, and 20 percent live at the line, according to the report.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 23, 2018
The government of the colonia was formed on a Roman model: there was a body of Decuriones or Senators.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
The immigrant population in the colonias has limited English proficiency, health literacy levels, and income, and lower levels of formal education.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
“How is that possible? It’s like the colonias are part of a different country.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
The problem hits hard in Appalachia, as well as in central Mississippi and Alabama, the colonias along the Texas-Mexico border, the Navajo Nation in the Southwest, and California’s Central Valley.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2021
Father explained: It was our word, colonias, the one we sometimes used for neighborhoods, and Tía Rosa still said it.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
About half a million Texas border residents live in so-called colonias across the U.S. side of the border, which often lack basic amenities such as running water.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2020
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