Word: diosa
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...culture of religious seekers and corresponding "enthusiasms for overnight sensations." "This guy" says Stevens-Arroyo, "is one among Heinz's 57 varieties" on the island, some of whom inevitably reach the Latino community on the mainland. He describes one Miami predecessor from the 1930s known as "La Diosa," who claimed to be an incarnation of the Holy Spirit. Her followers founded spiritual cooperatives: small businesses like laundromats dedicated to her, he says, are still in operation in the city...
...Whereas La Diosa was something of an ascetic, however, scholars say that De Jesus's message is more typical of the branch of Pentecostal Christianity called Prosperity Gospel, which enjoys modest success here but is vastly popular in the developing world. De Jesus' literature is studded with recurrent use of the phrases "prosperidad," (prosperity), "felicidad" (happiness), and his movement's name, which means "Growing in Grace" in English. Such catchwords are reminiscent of Prosperity's assertion that God wants to showers gifts upon his followers - provided that they tithe liberally to their church. So is De Jesus' unabashed enjoyment...
...children are flourishing. Julio, 21, drives a taxi. Adelso, 19, operates a printing press. Diosa, 17, is a hairdresser. Zoila Maria, 15, is studying to be a nurse. The working children contribute part of their earnings to the household, and the household is buoyant. "We have had some problems here," Eloina concedes. "We know the Latin people are looked down on and discriminated against, but we get used to that, and it doesn't mean that we're unhappy here. We're very happy. Our children have a future that our country could never have given them...
...port of Callao, the "coke" capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...
...Brining Diosa Costello to the last NTS the new Naval group at the school, as they held their first little private party last night, with songs and skits by the S-O's and a pair of girls, who "tap dance" was a "sender" according...