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“We Will All Look Like This Someday”: Santa Muerte in Mexico City

August 5, 2016

  BY KATHRYN McDONALD Over the past decade, La Santa Muerte, an unofficial Mexican skeletal saint, has prompted the curiosity of journalists, law enforcement, and popular culture in the United States and Mexico. The dramatic cover of journalist Michael Deibert’s book, In the Shadow of … [Read more...]

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