criollos

This is an insult peculiar to the Caribbean, used only by "criollos" - often used to specifically mean illegal workers from Haiti [ "batey" is a barracks for migrant workers].

The Mex Files 2009

But there were also descendants of the Spaniards, called criollos, who owned sugarmills and owned great plantations.

CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG 1968

The Napoleonic threat to Mexican culture united two mayor groups in New Spain: the "criollos"; the descendents of Spainards born in Mexico, and the "mestizos"; the descendents of mixed marriages between Spaniards and native peoples.

"El Grito" (the Cry) 2007

The Napoleonic threat to Mexican culture united two mayor groups in New Spain: the "criollos"; the descendents of Spainards born in Mexico, and the "mestizos"; the descendents of mixed marriages between Spaniards and native peoples.

"El Grito" (the Cry) 2007

The elite "criollos," locals of Spanish ancestry, often educated in Spain, looked across the Atlantic with a combined sense of ill ease and opportunity as Spain was overcome by French troops. "1810 fell upon them from the sky like a meteorite, and they did not know what to do with it.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The elite "criollos," locals of Spanish ancestry, often educated in Spain, looked across the Atlantic with a combined sense of ill ease and opportunity as Spain was overcome by French troops. "1810 fell upon them from the sky like a meteorite, and they did not know what to do with it.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The elite "criollos," locals of Spanish ancestry, often educated in Spain, looked across the Atlantic with a combined sense of ill ease and opportunity as Spain was overcome by French troops. "1810 fell upon them from the sky like a meteorite, and they did not know what to do with it.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The elite "criollos," locals of Spanish ancestry, often educated in Spain, looked across the Atlantic with a combined sense of ill ease and opportunity as Spain was overcome by French troops. "1810 fell upon them from the sky like a meteorite, and they did not know what to do with it.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

The elite "criollos," locals of Spanish ancestry, often educated in Spain, looked across the Atlantic with a combined sense of ill ease and opportunity as Spain was overcome by French troops. "1810 fell upon them from the sky like a meteorite, and they did not know what to do with it.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

We prefer the pepinos criollos at Bodega Aurrerá, which though a peso apiece (!) have some snap and flavor.

mexican food 2009