Her shrines can be found in the lairs of the most
violent criminal gangs, her worshipers are known to
have committed verified human sacrifices, and her
cult has spread from secret temples in rural Mexico
to almost every large city in America. Santa Muerte
the death goddess of Mexican narco-cults has
arrived in America and established a foothold in our
communities that will be impossible to dislodge. While
many are rightfully concerned about jihadists crossing
our southern border, there is another death cult
spreading among us that is just as dangerous as
Islamic terrorists.
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The brutality of those slayings mirrors the crimes of
Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, whose coven regularly
sacrificed Mexicans to empower his Nganga an altar
made from human body parts believed to contain a
familiar spirit enslaved to the magician. The groups
murders would have gone undetected for years had
they not made the mistake of abducting an American
tourist named Mark Kilroy. Authorities were forced to
investigate the disappearance and found Kilroys brains
in Constanzos Nganga. Ultimately, Constanzo and his
group were charged with 16 ritual murders.
There were 74 known ritual murders in Mexico City
at that time. Fourteen of the victims were infants.
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And indeed the cult has come a long way since the
1989 Matamoros murders. At last count there were
at least ten public shrines dedicated to Santa Muerte
in Mexico City and up to 120 public altars. A self-
proclaimed bishop of the cult named David Romo
Guillen ran masses at midnight venerating Santa
Muerte starting in 2002. Attendance was estimated
to average between two and three hundred people.
In 2011 Guillen was arrested for running a kidnapping
ring.
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Santa Muerte shrines have increasingly been found
among gang related businesses such as drug trafficking
and prostitution rings, especially businesses run by
MS-13,the Latin Kings, and the 18th Street gang.
The shrines are used both to supernaturally aid the
worshipers and to terrorize the communities they
are in.
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While not the organized threat of militant Islam, Santa
Muertes spread into our major cities among those who
are part of the unseen underground is still a potential
danger we need to recognize.
