Gangster saint: Our Lady of Death
• Superstitious Folly
Easier to spend a few minutes a month praying to Santa Muerte than forgoing murder and robbery as a career.
The first day of each month, hardened criminals of the capital's no-go Tepito neighbourhood clutch death figures to their chests and flock to a kerbside shrine of Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Death, to pray.
Gangsters pray to Our Lady of Death for protection on Mexico's meanest streets