jesus malverde
A Narco-Saint, a Death Cult, and a Lost-Cause Apostle Await the Pope in Mexico
As Mexico lavishly prepares for Pope Francis' first visit to the world's second most Catholic nation, the country's rapidly growing religious counterculture doesn't really care that he's coming.
Cashing in on 'El Chapo'
VICE News travels to “Sinaloa country” in Los Angeles to meet admirers of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, and the entrepreneurs who are capitalizing on the drug lord’s infamy.
'El Chapo' Mythology Grows in Drug Lord's Home State of Sinaloa
Could Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Chapo's birthplace, become a tourism destination after the cartel chief's second brazen prison escape?
Partying at the Shrine of Mexican Narco-Saint Jesús Malverde
Every year, devotees of Jesús Malverde gather in Culiacán to parade a bust of the Robin Hood–esque figure through town and honor him with gifts of cigarettes and whiskey.
Narco-Saints Are Melding Catholicism with the Drug Trade in Mexico
A new exhibit at UCLA called Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners plays on folk legends, and the drug traffickers and impoverished citizens who rely on them as nonjudgmental sources of strength and protection.
