Its governor, Francisco Barrio, had run the state quite well and was still popular.
Similar work, with a more contemporary slant, is on display at New York's Museo del Barrio.
News that the playground will open was announced to a public meeting on Saturday by eight-year-old Ruby Barrio.
The path from the barrio to Beverly Hills is not without its bumps.
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For the last 20 years he's been a member of Compton Barrio Trace, the gang that runs this particular neighborhood.
His "Barrio Adentro" scheme brought hundreds of Cuban medics to Venezuela to staff new health centres in some of the country's poorest neighbourhoods.
Casa Anselma, across the river in the old flamenco barrio (district) of Triana, is beloved by aficionados who every night launch into impromptu performances.
Andrew Carmellini, chef of the Dutch in Manhattan, serves Barrio Tripe, cooked "low and slow with a lot of love and attention, " he said.
Under Barrio Adentro, tens of thousands of Cuban doctors are brought to work in Venezuela in exchange for Venezuelan oil to Cuba under preferential terms.
Last week, US police across the border in El Paso, Texas, rounded up members of the Barrio Azteca gang suspected of carrying out the killings.
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Because they stayed in the barrio, Yorio and Jalics were kidnapped.
Mr Barrio had said he would not seek its presidential candidacy.
The sergeant who was acting as my guide studied the crowd outside the clinic, frowned, and said that they could not leave me in this barrio.
His information, he said, came from his ally Fidel Castro: it is the Cuban medical mission, not the Venezuelan government, that keeps the books on Barrio Adentro.
At the historic 58-room Hotel Charleston Casa Medina in the northern barrio (neighbourhood) of Chapinero, guests enjoy classic architectural and design touches such as rich hardwood floors, hand carved doors, fireplaces and exposed stone.
La Venencia is exactly how sherry bars should be: old world, drinks poured straight from the dusty wooden barrels, and none of the frenetic activity for which the barrio of Huertas is famous.
It gave me the confidence to work as a middle school science teacher in a Mexican barrio in San Diego, California even though I had no formal education training or experience with the culture.
Its honorary chairman, and one of its most effective spokesmen, is California's best-known Latino teacher, Jaime Escalante, whose struggle to teach calculus to barrio kids in East Los Angeles has been celebrated in a film.
Two Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, were kidnapped from the slum where they worked, held for five months in an army torture center, then dumped, drugged and disoriented, in a barrio outside the capital.
But away from the traffic and noise of downtown, the southern barrio (neighbourhood) of Barranco is an instant reprieve, a place to breathe in a lungful of salty Pacific air and enjoy the village-like atmosphere.
Through sheer force of will, Eisner and his organization have had a profound impact on the lives of L.A.'s disadvantaged, opening what the author Malcolm Gladwell, a champion of Eisner's, has called an "underground railroad" out of the barrio.
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