Posted on 02/07/2008 9:23:08 PM PST by fishhound
HOUSTON: Jesús Malverde has been revered for almost a century in northwestern Mexico. According to folklore, he was a Mexican Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor until he was killed by the police in 1909.
Now, immigrants have brought his legend to the United States. His image, which is thought to offer protection from the law, can be found on items that include T-shirts and household cleaners.
Malverde is widely considered the patron saint of drug dealers, say law enforcement officials and experts on Mexican culture. A shrine has been erected atop his grave in the remote city of Culiacán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which has long been associated with opium and marijuana trafficking.
"The drug guys go to the shrine and ask for assistance and come back in big cars and with stacks of money to give thanks," said James Creechan, a Canadian sociologist and adjunct professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in Culiacán.
But Creechan, who presented a paper on Malverde to the American Society of Criminology in 2005, added that the poor also pray to Malverde for money and safe passage across the border into the United States.
An influx of immigrants from the Sinaloan region in recent years has made Malverde's image increasingly visible on this side of the border, particularly in the Southwest and in California. His legend has spread among Hispanics, Creechan said, inspiring many to build altars to Malverde in their homes, as well as to wear Malverde cologne.
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...moron.
Translates as “Jesus Badgreen.”
where to begin...
That he is on the shelf with Our Lady of Guadelupe is bad enopugh but to have him( hand full of cash) bracketed by two Our Lady’s makes him look like ...guess.
Jesus Malverde Candle
That is scary.
Malverde is a feeble attempt replace “Zorro”.
If I poray hard enough to malverde I might make it all the way to Maine.
poray=pray oops
A lot of the people that believe in this guy also believe the US moon landing was staged in hollywood and is totally bogus. The mentality is very similar to the folks that believe there are 60 virgins waiting on the other side.
makes sense.
that... and it’s ok to come here and get money and it’s a great place but if they can’t then the US is just evil.
Illegals know who the real Jesús Malverde is.
Gringos call him Uncle Sam but the illegals know him as Uncle Stupid.
We have one of those relatives that one avoids at all costs in Houston that sells these candles and also coins with Malverde’s face on them that she picks up in Mexico for a little of nothing. The illegals flock to her store in droves to buy these items from “la bruja” that mutters incantations over them while sprinkling dust, seeds, and the like into the top of the candles. She takes a 50 cent coin and sells it to drug dealers for thousands. Believe me, they believe in this crapola.
We always imagined that someday one of these drug dealers that got caught by the DEA will get out of jail and slit her throat for selling BS coins and candles. She’s been doing this in Houston for over 25 years and is extremely wealthy. They should swap Jesus’ face for hers on this junk since she’s the one robbing hoods.
Must be the guy on the zig zag cover.
Infidel! Heretic! There are 72 virgins, not 60! Behead the non-believer!
60 virgins? What are they downsizing that too?
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