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Río Bravo

[ ree-aw vrah-vaw ]

noun

  1. Mexican name of Rio Grande ( def 1 ).


Río Bravo

/ ˈrio ˈbraβo /

noun

  1. the Mexican name for the Rio Grande
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Both scenes take place in a jail; they’re built out of the same kind of conversational fireworks that Howard Hawks used to make “Rio Bravo.”

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In 1984, in a place called Rio Bravo just south of Laredo, Texas, a double-wide trailer burst into flames.

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Rio Bravo was, at the time, a subdivision situated next to the Rio Grande, carved out of rented land by a greedy Texas land developer who sold parcels in “open contracts” to undocumented immigrants.

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“We bathe in the Rio Bravo, which we were told is polluted,” said Edith Waldan, a 29-year-old Honduran who is now in the U.S. but kept her CBP One appointment a secret while in Matamoros because she feared being kidnapped.

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Viewers using the included digital code can stream one of the vintage featurettes, an eight-minute look at Old Tucson Studios where “Rio Bravo” and hundreds of other Westerns were shot.

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