In the year of 2019, in the city of San Francisco, James Eddy petitioned San Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of drug dealers for assistance. James gives infinite thanks that his supplier, a businessman who shall remain anonymous, respected his wishes to get sober and made no effort to peddle his product when James told him he was finished. James painted this retablo to commemorate the miracle of San Jesus Malverde’s intercession and James’ sobriety which commenced on December 31, 2019. Executed this first day of March 2021 in the City of San Francisco.

Malverde, they caught your follower. Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, was extradited to the united States by an agreement Mexico signed in 1978. After almost a year long legal battle given by his lawyer, which wasn’t enough to make a Mexican court declare illegal sending to the United States, he was extradited on January 20, 2017.

We thank Jesus Malverde because the cartel people brought the Christmas presents to the children, as they do every year.

Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, 2018

We thank Jesus Malverde for his favors and for one more year of successful deliveries of drugs to the gringos with the submarine that our boss ordered.

Sinaloa, Mexico, 2006

We ask Holy Death to return well after crossing the Arizona desert and delivering the coke to get some dollars for our families in Sonora.

Mexico, Sep. 2017, The Walker

Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, I’m entrusting my son to you. Look after him because he’s going to fight the narcos.

Aurora Toledo

Thanks, Virgin, because after having walked till my friend’s feet bled he finally found a house near the central station where we two could live. In this way he saved me from the house of the narcos where I had lived for a year and he saved himself from the love he had lost in the house where he had lived with his dog before.

Malverde, protect us from our odious enemies. Chapo patrols his territory since there are some rumors about the enemy gang snooping around. We don’t want any surprises. We have few men down already, and besides that, we have to beware of the army.

Los Diarios, 2005

Drugs, money, power. Thank you, my dear Jesus Malverde.

Jesus Malverde, we thank you for your protection. We passed over an hour in a hard confrontation. But when we almost ran out of bullets, we managed to escape safe and unharmed, with the goods.

Pablo Aurilla
Coahuila, 2—22—75