MEXICO CITY – A family has built what could be the first public shrine in Mexico City to Jesus Malverde, Mexico's so-called "narco-saint" revered by many of the nation's drug traffickers. Malverde, ...
In the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in northern Mexico, drug traffickers flock to a small unofficial church, paying homage for their success in the criminal underworld. For Mexico's drug traffickers, ...
The questionnaire for prospective jurors in the upcoming New York trial of reputed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman has the standard questions. Prospective jurors are asked about their ...
A “NARCO SAINT” revered by Mexican drug traffickers has become a hot seller in city botanicas, sharing shelf space with the Virgin of Guadalupe and St. Michael the Archangel. Shop owners in Brooklyn ...
A nonprofit organization that works with at-risk youth projected the wrong kind of image at the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival when it was discovered that its chalk drawing depicted the ...
Meet Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of drug dealers. Legend has it that he was a Mexican Robin Hood figure – a handsome moustachioed bandito who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Some say he ...
In Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, long a hot-bed of drug cultivation and the drug trade, for decades narco-traffickers have joined common Mexicans in worshipping ...
Two years ago I wrote a feature about the patron saint of narcotics, Jesus Malverde, and how cops in East Portland were treating Malverde's presence in homes as a sign of possible drug activity. At ...
How weak is the evidence tying slain Iraq war veteran Jose Guerena to the drug ring and/or home invasion gang whose existence has been asserted (though not alleged – no arrests have been made) by the ...
Statues of Jesús Malverde are selling like hotcakes in East Portland—as well as aerosols, trading cards, and candles emblazoned with his picture. Dressed in his distinctive white suit, with a ...
El Chapo’s team of high-paid lawyers are praying they can get the notorious accused drug lord acquitted — and have turned to Mexico’s narco saint Jesus Malverde for help. A 6-inch statuette of the ...
A couple's convictions for distributing $20,000 worth of methamphetamine have been reversed in part because a federal prosecutor cited their belief in "Jesús Malverde" — known as the patron saint of ...
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