Tepito

As opposed to being the political message Posada intended, the skeletons of equality became skeletal images that were appealing to tourists and the national folkloric Mexican identity.

Veneration of Santa Muerta was documented in the 1940s in working-class neighborhoods in Mexico City, such as Tepito.

The new religious movement of Santa Muerte first came to widespread popular attention in Mexico of August 1998, when police arrested the notorious gangster Daniel Arizmendi Lopez and discovered a shrine to Santa Muerte in his home.

Widely reported in the press, this discovery inspired a common association between Santa Muerte, violence, and criminality in Mexican popular consciousness.

I think they will.

I just went to, I did a trip to Mexico and ended up falling into this situation where I ended up in the most dangerous hood in Mexico, Tepito.

And we went with this journalist who was masked and it was like a really trippy experience.

And I was like, um like yo this place is like like this would be an interesting comparison to like the drug economy of like mexico's most dangerous neighborhood to like macarthur park which like shares so many similarities with this neighborhood in mexico um so i think that's going to be a really interesting video and hopefully i don't have to make a career out of going to dangerous places but it would be interesting so we'll see

manifestado.

Esa fue de ídolo de Tepito.

Exactamente.

No oigo mudos.