Word: dionisia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Whole Enchilada: Hispanic Marketing 101, calls a basic "law of the Hispanic universe": "Family is always first," writes Faura. "Family means your mom and dad and brothers and sisters and second cousins and cousins of your aunt's husband's sister and aunts of your mom's second cousin Dionisia from Veracruz." (Or, in real-world terms, Parilla, a single mom, won't skimp on her baby, no matter how stretched her pocketbook.) Plus, diapers are a growth category: 1 in 5 babies born in the U.S., and 1 in 2 in California, is Hispanic...
...fighters. As in the barrios of east Los Angeles or the slums of Mexico City, professional boxing offers one of the few available routes out of the hopelessness of Mindanao. For Pacquiao, boxing may have been the only way. His parents separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching...
...Pacquiao is a source of local pride, but the attention he receives is sometimes dangerous. Dionisia has been robbed, and there have been threats made against his children; the tall walls, the guard tower and the bodyguard manning his house are clearly meant to discourage casual visitors. The boy who had nothing has much to lose now. Under orders from Pacquiao, his sons - toddlers Emmanuel Jr. and Michael - are kept in an air-conditioned back room all day, out of reach of kidnappers. Pacquiao has said he'll forbid his sons to enter the ring, but Dionisia understands how powerless...