Gang members are turning to Santa Muerte to shield them from law enforcement and ensure the success of their operations.

Believed to date back to 18th century Mexico, the saint gained a following of drug lords there and was more recently adopted by Ecuadoran traffickers and hitmen in Duran -- a city overrun by drug ...

The eerie statue of a skeleton shrouded in a cape — a scythe in her right hand and a globe of Earth in her left — is the latest in a fast-growing number of Santa Muerte shrines found in criminal ...

The eerie statue ... in Mexico, two women and a boy were shot dead at an altar to La Santa Muerte. The saint was more recently adopted by Ecuadoran traffickers and hitmen in Duran — a city ...