The Rosary in the Hands of Killers: Why Cartel Members Wear Crucifixes While They Murder by Jeff Callaway
The Rosary in the Hands of Killers: Why Cartel Members Wear Crucifixes While They Murder By Jeff Callaway Texas Outlaw Poet A Border of Blood and Prayer The photograph tells a story that ought to stop your heart cold. A mass grave in Sinaloa, bodies stacked like cordwood, victims of cartel violence left to rot in the Mexican dirt. But look closer at the images of the killers themselves, the sicarios who create these valleys of death. Around their necks hang rosaries. On their chests, crucifixes catch the desert sun. In their pockets, prayer cards to Our Lady of Guadalupe rest alongside ammunition and methamphetamine. This is the horror show at America's southern border that nobody in Washington wants to acknowledge, a spiritual cancer that goes deeper than politics, deeper than drug policy, deeper than border security. This is a battle for souls being waged in blood, and the weapon of choice is a twisted perversion of the Catholic faith that would make the Cristero martyrs weep. Ho...
