Santa Muerte is not the only object of supernatural devotion in the drug trade. Far from it. In fact, she’s something of a Johnny-come-lately in Mexican folk religion, and for as long as there have ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Roush, an anthropology professor at Mexico’s Colegio de Michoacán, has extensively studied the Santa Muerte devotion in Mexico. The views expressed are her own. Mexico City CNN — ...

Sunny Flea Market on Airline Drive is as full of raw life as any place in the state of Texas, especially on this hot Sunday afternoon in August. Fifty thousand weekly visitors stroll its long rows of ...

Photojournalist Héctor Quintanar has documented a different tradition that takes place in Coatepec, Veracruz during the Day of the Dead celebrations in México. This is a glimpse of last year's ...

The first thing that greets you when you walk into Yerberia Santa Fe, a Cerrillos Road store that sells religious goods, is a 3-foot-tall figure with a hooded, multicolored robe holding a scythe.

Santa Muerte (Saint of Death or Our Holy Lady of Death) is a Mexican folk saint whose devotion has significantly increased over the past few decades. Known for her skeletal figure and association with ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...

Mexico’s Santa Muerte — a folk saint with a grinning skull — attracts thousands of followers in Ecatepec, the same town recently visited by Pope Francis. While some believe Santa Muerte grants special ...