Headpress, the U.K.
publishing house based in London, recently signed true-crime author John
Lee Brook to pen a tell-all book about Mexican cartels and occult figure
Santa Muerte. It is rumored that Mr. Brook, the author of the bestselling Blood In Blood Out: The Violent
Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood, has made personal contact with cartel
members, who have agreed to relate the grisly details surrounding death worship.
A recluse, Brock travels back and forth from Montana to San Francisco,
In Tony
Scott's 2004 action film Man on Fire, a journalist explains: "It's
Santa Muerte. Death worship. There's a curse on you." Santisma Muerte is the
cult of Holy Death, a corruption (some would say perversion) of the cult of the
Blessed Virgin in Mexican Catholicism. The movie offers a glance into a
real-life facet of Mexican organized crime. Because of the underground nature of
organized crime, it transcends the boundaries of conventional business and
emerges as a distinct subculture.
The Santa Muerte cult is most properly described as
a set of ritual practices offered on behalf a supernatural personification of
death. The personification is female for two reasons: because the Spanish word
for death, "muerte," is feminine and because this personification is a sort of
counterpart to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The cult appears to be closely associated with
crime, criminals, and those whose lives are directly affected by crime.
Criminals, especially the Mexican drug cartels, identify with Santa Muerte and
call upon the saint for protection and power, even when committing crimes. They
adorn themselves with her paraphernalia and render her the respect worth of
a deity.
The forthcoming book is eagerly anticipated by
true-crime aficionados around the world. And sources indicate the movie rights
to the book have already been optioned, with a screenplay in progress, though
there is no confirmation.
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