The cult of Malverde is part of Mexico's "narco-culture," a movement that celebrates drug traffickers and other outlaws. Bearing offerings, followers file through the chapel, whose walls are covered with dollar bills and messages of prayer and thanks. This Mexican Robin Hood is not an actual Catholic saint — and may not have really existed. This is the festival of Jesus Malverde, considered the patron saint of drug traffickers, held every year in the Mexican city of Culiacan. Culiacan is the capital of Sinaloa state, home base to one of the country's most powerful drug cartels.

Source: Daily Nation May 05, 2018 03:11 UTC