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  • 'Narco-saint' Jesus Malverde gets shrine in Mexico City

    01/23/2007 12:04:28 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 13 replies · 1,074+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 23, 2007 | MARK STEVENSON
    MEXICO CITY — Prison cells are decorated with his image. Drug traffickers carry symbols of him. Now, he has a shrine in Mexico City. Jesus Malverde, a legendary crime figure revered as a saint by many of the country's drug traffickers, has received plenty worshippers since the shrine went up in the capital's rough Doctores neighborhood, said Maria Alicia Pulido Sanchez, a housewife who built it two months ago. Accounts of the true life of Malverde differ, with some saying he was a railway or construction worker who became a bandit before being hanged in Culiacan in 1909. Admirers say...