On Thursday, Telemundo released its first behind-the-scenes look at “Malverde: El Santo Patrón” (“Malverde: The Patron Saint”), the ambitious upcoming series starring Latin Grammy Award winner Pedro ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) On Wednesday, men, women and children of all ages will march in a procession in honor of Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-like folk hero. CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) Every year, ...

In Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, long a hot-bed of drug cultivation and the drug trade, for decades narco-traffickers have joined common Mexicans in worshipping ...

If Teresita Urrea lives today mostly as an historical figure, our next folk saint, Jesus Malverde, may never have existed, but he is very much alive in the hearts and minds of his devotees. According ...

MEXICO CITY – A family has built what could be the first public shrine in Mexico City to Jesus Malverde, Mexico's so-called "narco-saint" revered by many of the nation's drug traffickers. Malverde, ...

Sonora Market in Mexico City is the city's principal centre selling religious artefacts and esoterica and it's the starting point for our search for Jesús Malverde, the so called "patron saint of drug ...

In the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in northern Mexico, drug traffickers flock to a small unofficial church, paying homage for their success in the criminal underworld. For Mexico's drug traffickers, ...

The questionnaire for prospective jurors in the upcoming New York trial of reputed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman has the standard questions. Prospective jurors are asked about their ...