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.

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 ...

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 ...

Agents testified that they found four guns, ammunition, and a suppressor in the Dale City home where he was staying, as well as an image of “Jesus Malverde,” a Mexican folklore icon associated ...

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 ...

A story about a day in the life of the Mexican hero Jesus Malverde. One day he loses his magic hat, and with it his superhero power. Now he is forced to go in search of the missing.