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**The sect is linked to narcotics trafficking in Mexico. As it moves north, it takes on the benign glow of virtue.
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The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujosbrujos – witch doctors – in his family.
The name the worshipers invoked was not that of the Virgin Mary but of Santa Muerte, or “Holy Death,” a Mexican folk saint linked to narcotics trafficking, a kind of female grim reaper with a skull for a face.
About two dozen devotees recited a rosary and stood and sat on cue to offer praise to this unconventional icon one Sunday at a storefront shrine near MacArthur Park.
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The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujosbrujos – witch doctors – in his family.
The name the worshipers invoked was not that of the Virgin Mary but of Santa Muerte, or “Holy Death,” a Mexican folk saint linked to narcotics trafficking, a kind of female grim reaper with a skull for a face.
About two dozen devotees recited a rosary and stood and sat on cue to offer praise to this unconventional icon one Sunday at a storefront shrine near MacArthur Park.
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