Some Caribbean communities, like Cubans, Dominicans, Haitians and Puerto Ricans have members who practice Santeria.
Its like West African religious practices, that came over with the slaves.
In 1989 a University of Texas student (Mark Kilroy) was abducted from S. Padre Island while on spring break, and taken to a ranch in Mexico. He was tortured for days and then became a part of a santeria ritual. He was ultimately beheaded. It’s a gruesome “religious” practice, Santeria is.