Mexican prosecutors are investigating a poor family living near the Mexican border in connection with the ritual killings of three people.
It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution.
Mexican authorities are now investigating whether the any of them are tied to the sacrifices of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman to Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, a figure adored mostly by outlaws but whose popularity is growing across Mexico and among Hispanics in the United States….
There’s an excellent DVD on this phenomenon called “Santa Muerte” narrated in English by Gael Garcia Bernal.