Here, cartel “hawks,” often young children, stand watch at market entrances, while deep inside, traffickers conduct business under the gaze of Jesús Malverde, the so-called “narco saint.” The real ...

Locals in Culiacán dodge bullets and fear the possible arrival of rival gangs while U.S. pressure to stamp out the Mexican fentanyl trade mounts.

there is a shrine to Jesus Malverde and on the third of every month his followers come to commemorate his death. Ivonne Valdez Pulido is in charge of the Malverde shrine: "In the beginning about ...

The Malverde shrine is a makeshift cinder-block ... elaborate patterns to frame cutout images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Jesus Christ, and La Santa Muerte. He first learned of Holy Death through ...

CULIACÁN, Mexico—Even Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers, has fallen victim to the vicious turf war ripping apart Mexico’s biggest producer and smuggler of fentanyl.