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Now in their forties, the childhood friends came together from across Argentina to recreate a photo that was taken in 1983, when they were boys aged 4-10.<\/p>\n None had any recollection of the day the photo was taken, but they all slipped seamlessly into their roles. Kykeo\u2019s older brother, Dang, and two friends assumed their positions on the stoop of the Buenos Aires hotel that they all called home after their families were resettled from Laos to Argentina in the late 1970s. 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1 June 2022<\/p>\nThe \u2018Karate Kid\u2019 who is \u2018more Argentine than dulce de leche\u2019<\/h3>\n
<\/strong>Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/p>\nKykeo Kabsuvan, a young refugee from Laos, poses for a photo with his brother and friends in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1983. \u00a9UNHCR\/Alejandro Cherep<\/h6>\n
Almost 40 years ago, a photojournalist snapped a picture of Kykeo Kabsuvan, a young refugee from Laos who had been resettled to Argentina. Now a karate teacher, football fan and avid mate<\/em> drinker, Kykeo is a model of integration.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nNow in their forties, the childhood friends came together from across Argentina to recreate a photo that was taken in 1983, when they were boys aged 4-10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/spotlight\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}