Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...

Caution is advised because it can be dangerous to deal with Santa Muerte without the proper respect. "We are not criminals, people look down on us because we have tattoos or because we look poor ...

It's unknown who built the gray cinder block structure that houses an elaborate alter to Santa Muerte, or Holy Death ... Additionally, Oropesa had a tattoo with of the death cult patroness ...

Clad in a black nun’s robe and holding a scythe in one hand, Santa Muerte appeals to people seeking all manner of otherworldly help: from fending off wrongdoing and carrying out vengeance to ...

Clad in a black nun's robe and holding a scythe in one hand, Santa Muerte appeals to people seeking all manner of otherworldly help: from fending off wrongdoing and carrying out vengeance to ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is also a season when people invoke la Santa Muerte - or the Death Saint. ANDREW CHESNUT: She is the saint who never discriminates, because death accepts everybody.

The eerie statue of a skeleton shrouded in a cape — a scythe in her right hand and a globe of Earth in her left — is the latest in a fast-growing number of Santa Muerte shrines found in ...

A Leader of Mexican Folk Saint Cult 'La Santa Muerte' Is Killed at an Altar to the Skeletal Figure MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was ...