For the past 16 years, Mauro Rios Parra has sold fruit bars and ice cream on the streets of Pico-Union, one of L.A.'s densest cities and among the hardest hit by the coronavirus.

A paletero was beaten unconscious and another one was killed. Street vendors are on edge By Nicole Chavez and Dominic Torres, CNN 4 min read ...

Victor Cruz, a 65-year-old paletero from Colombia, has been working with La Polar for the last five years. It’s a side job he’s taken on since he retired from his job as a truck driver.

A driver flags down paletero Victor Flores as he sells paletas down the street on Wednesday, June 27, 2023, in San Antonio. Gabe Hernandez | SABJ By James McCandless – Reporter, San Antonio ...

The paletero didn’t use a crosswalk, according to a DPD spokeswoman. A Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulance transported Muñoz to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.

Rosario Del Real, 70, a paletero, talks with Michaelangelo Mosqueda at ice cream shop Las Tres Abejas in Chicago on June 24, 2020. Mosqueda and his girlfriend, Karen Gonzalez, set up a GoFundMe ...

But the community members also gathered for a more important reason. They showed up to support the family of their neighborhood paletero, Ambrocio Lozano, about a week after federal immigration ...

Pilsen residents launch GoFundMe to help longtime paletero The money that’s raised will help pay ice cream seller Dan Ananias Ocampo’s $500-per-month rent in the small room he’s lived in for ...

El paletero se convirtió en beneficiario de enorme solidaridad global luego de que su foto, encorvado y empujando un carrito de paletas en La Villita, ...

This week on Curious City, we're revisiting a story from 2017 about what it takes to be a paletero in Chicago. Subscribe to Curious City. Pocket Casts. Apple. Spotify. NPR One.