A roadside Shrine for Jesus Malverde on the old road from La Mision to Ensenada. A broom rests out front for worshippers to keep it clean.
Malverde lives in legend in Mexico. He was darkly handsome, his admirers say, a true macho Mexican man with thick black eyebrows and an even thicker mustache. In the chaotic years before the Mexican Revolution of 1910, he was said to steal from the oligarchs and distribute his loot to the poor. He was Mexico's beloved Robin Hood, until one day he was caught and hanged.
In the century since his death, Malverde has morphed into a potent symbol, especially for poor Mexicans who saw crime as the only way to overcome the corruption and repression that kept them in misery. In modern times, Mexico's drug dealers have come to love Malverde's image.
A Jesus Malverde stamp.
Here is an interesting site with more products with his name.
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Here is one of the many songs sung about
Jesus Malverde
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