Posted on 09/15/2020 3:33:09 PM PDT by PghBaldy
The Botanica Los Misterios sits at the end of a strip mall in a working-class neighborhood of San Antonio’s South Side, next to a shoe repair shop and a store selling mariachi accessories. If not for a dazzling mural of Selena flowing down the side of the building, the Botanica’s light blue storefront could be easily missed from South Flores Street, a busy roadway that cuts through the southern half of the city.
On a recent afternoon, the owner, a soft-spoken, balding man in his mid-40s, was getting ready to lock up the tiny store when Marisa Casanova walked in the front door, a look of worry on her face. The 47-year-old patron, who grew up nearby and works as a caretaker, held a crumpled $10 bill in her hand—enough, she hoped, to pay for a miracle.
(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...
uninsured? im confused... I thought Obama fixed that?
ROFL
Take you $10 and buy some Vitamins
The title should be changed to “In San Antonio, Recent Immigrants From Lating America Who Are Uninsured Are Turning to Traditional Healers to Help Them Survive the Pandemic”
No second generation Americans are turning to traditional healers unless they are in a cult.
If you believe that, I have some investments you might be interested in.
I thought all low income American citizens are eligible for Medicaid. Oh yeah, AMERICAN CITIZENS being the key words.
Several third world countries are running circles around us with significantly fewer deaths/thousand from CV19. There’s a “witch doctor” (Dr Stella Immanuel) trained in Nigeria that I’d rather see for treatment than any US physician.
uninsured? im confused... I thought Obama fixed that?
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Well, it IS Texas Monthy....one of the most lib rags in the country.
Didn’t even Trump say earlg on that Covid care would be free of charge for uninsureds?
Or is it that they don’t buy insurance because they believe in this stuff instead.
I have no reason to believe the illegals have suddenly found Jesus, and turned away from their grifting ways.
Yeah....Gary Cartwright used to write some pretty decent articles.
But, again, that was years ago.
“where she hoped to find a natural remedy capable of ridding her son of the coronavirus and other illnesses that she worried he MAY have picked up in jail”
will, a penny candy should be effective for ridding ALL diseases he MAY have picked up ...
What a great painting. But it reminds me of that x files ep with Duchovny in that Indian Hogan.
Also, thre is nothing worse than the ol faith healer route. Full of crackpots and shyster.
State aid is available what about that route.
Oh man. You are right. These people need to get the hell out of our country. What a drain they are on us all.
What they really mean us illegals
And those folks use that form of “medicine” CoVid or no
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