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La Libertad Avanza
La Libertad Avanza (LLA), "Freedom Advances," Argentine right-libertarian coalition founded 2021 by Javier Milei; won the 2023 presidency with 56% and the 2025 midterms with about 40.65%, distinct from the 2018 Libertarian Party.
La Libertad, Peru
La Libertad is a department and region of northwestern Peru, capital Trujillo, with 12 provinces and 83 districts, about 2.1 million people, Peru's third-largest regional economy, and a diversified agro-industrial and gold-mining base.
La Liebre Perseguida
La Liebre Perseguida (The Pursued Hare) is a Spanish two-player hunt board game: one hare against three galgos on a square board with triangles; galgos win by blocking, the hare by breaking past. Distinct from Cercar la liebre.
La Liga
La Liga (LALIGA EA SPORTS) is Spain's top men's football division, first played in 1929 and organized since 1984 by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional; known for centralized TV rights under RD 5/2015, a-priori squad cost limits since 2013, and record €5,464M revenues in 2024/25.
La Liga Awards
The La Liga Awards, formerly the LFP Awards, are the official end-of-season awards LALIGA gives for the best player, coach, U-23 player, and goal of each Spanish season.
La Liga Filipina
La Liga Filipina (The Philippine League) was a civic association founded by José Rizal in Tondo, Manila, on 3 July 1892 to seek peaceful reform.
La Liga records and statistics
La Liga records and statistics: Spain's top football division since 1928-29. Real Madrid lead with 36 titles, Barcelona 27-29; Zubizarreta's 622 appearances, Messi's scoring marks, and 2025/26 attendance record of 17.5 million.
La Línea (gang)
La Línea ("The Line") is a Mexican criminal group founded in the early 2000s by police officers in Ciudad Juárez as the Juárez Cartel's enforcement arm; it fought Sinaloa in 2008–2011, was linked to the 2019 LeBarón massacre, and now dominates parts of Chihuahua.
La Línea de la Concepción
La Línea de la Concepción is a Spanish city in Cádiz, Andalusia, on the isthmus bordering Gibraltar. Founded 1870 from San Roque, population about 65,000, economy tied to Gibraltar; its border fence, La Verja, was removed in July 2026 under an EU-UK treaty.
La Llorona
La Llorona (Spanish for "the weeping woman"), also known as La Sucia, is a legendary ghost of Mexican folklore who wanders at night beside rivers, weeping for the children she drowned.
La Llorona (2019 film)
La Llorona (2019) is Jayro Bustamante's Guatemalan-French horror-drama reworking the weeping-woman legend as an account of the Maya genocide and Ríos Montt's trial; 97 minutes, Venice premiere, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, distinct from The Curse of La Llorona.
La Llorona (song)
"La Llorona" ("The Weeping Woman") is a traditional Mexican folk song, best known as a son istmeño from Oaxaca, with hundreds of versions and no known author.
LA LOM
LA LOM (The Los Angeles League of Musicians) is an instrumental Los Angeles trio of Zac Sokolow, Jake Faulkner, and Nicholas Baker, formed in 2019 at the Roosevelt Hotel, blending cumbia, boleros, chicha, and soul; debut album on Verve, 2024.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia (Llotja de la Seda), the Silk Exchange, is a late Gothic civil building complex in Valencia, Spain, built 1482–1533 by Pere Compte and others for Mediterranean trade, inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 under criteria (i) and (iv).
La Lumiere School
La Lumiere School is an independent co-ed Catholic-tradition boarding and day college-prep school in La Porte, Indiana, founded 1963, grades 9-12 plus PG; 163 students from 21 countries, 8:1 ratio, Chief Justice John Roberts is a 1973 alumnus.
La Luna Sangre
La Luna Sangre (The Blood Moon) is a 2017–2018 ABS-CBN Philippine fantasy drama, third of the Lobo/Imortal Moonstone trilogy, starring Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Richard Gutierrez, and Angel Locsin in a vampire-werewolf prophecy story.
La lupa (film title family)
La lupa is the shared title of two Italian films adapted from Giovanni Verga's 1880 novella: Alberto Lattuada's 1953 version shot in Matera and Gabriele Lavia's 1996 version starring Monica Guerritore, plus related adaptations Furia and Wild Is the Wind.
La Lupe
La Lupe (Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond), also La Yiyiyi, was an Afro-Cuban singer, the "Queen of Latin Soul", who left Cuba in 1962, recorded with Mongo Santamaría and Tito Puente, and died in the Bronx in 1992.
La Luz (band)
La Luz, Spanish for "the light," is an American surf rock and psychedelic pop band formed in Seattle in 2012 by singer and guitarist Shana Cleveland.
La Luz del Mundo
La Luz del Mundo is an international Christian church founded in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1926, which describes itself as the restoration of the primitive Christian church.
La Machine du Moulin Rouge (music)
La Machine du Moulin Rouge is a large nightclub and concert venue beside the Moulin Rouge in Paris, opened in 2010 on the site of La Locomotive.
La Madeleine, Paris
La Madeleine, formally the Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, is a Roman Catholic church in neoclassical temple form on the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842.
La madrastra (2005 TV series)
La madrastra (The Stepmother), Televisa's 2005 Mexican telenovela with Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, adapted from Arturo Moya Grau: a wrongfully imprisoned woman returns as her own children's stepmother to find the killer of Patricia. Highest-rated Televisa telenovela of 2005.
La maja desnuda
La maja desnuda (The Nude Maja), Francisco de Goya, 1795-1800, oil on canvas, Prado Museum, Madrid. Twin of La maja vestida; probably commissioned by Manuel Godoy, investigated by the Inquisition in 1815, model's identity unknown.
La Malagueña
La Malagueña, also called Malagueña Salerosa, is a Mexican son huasteco song credited to Elpidio Ramírez and Pedro Galindo and famous through Miguel Aceves Mejía's falsetto recording with Mariachi Vargas.
La Malena Roman Villa
La Malena is a late Roman villa near Azuara, Zaragoza, Spain, used from the 1st to the 5th century and known for its rich mosaics.
La Malinche
La Malinche (Malintzin, Doña Marina), born around 1500, was the Indigenous interpreter for Hernán Cortés in the conquest of the Mexica; later malinchismo made her a byword for betrayal, now under feminist and official reappraisal.
La malquerida
La malquerida (2014) is a Mexican Televisa telenovela by producer José Alberto Castro, based on Jacinto Benavente's 1913 play, starring Victoria Ruffo, Ariadne Díaz, and Cristian Meier in a stepfather-stepdaughter love-triangle drama aired on Canal de las Estrellas from June 2, 2014, in 117 episodes.
La Mancha
La Mancha is a natural and historical region of central Spain, an elevated, largely flat plateau spanning parts of Toledo, Albacete, Cuenca, and Ciudad Real provinces.
La Mancha Negra
La Mancha Negra (Spanish for "the black stain") was a dark, sticky substance that appeared on Caracas, Venezuela highways in 1986, resisted cleanup, and was never explained.