<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d537d7ad-0731-4c27-96f7-87ef3bf1e7d3/4FA11C6A-DEDA-43C1-BBD1-87B9D650C11B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html" href="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html" style="font-size: 11px;">spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html"><DIV><IMG align="right" src="http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/Jesus_Malverde.jpg" />I hate when I do this, but I can't seem to remember where I first came across <A href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/malverde.html">Jesus</A> <A href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/36310/jesus_malverde_the_narco_saint.html?cat=47">Malverde</A>, "Patron Saint of Drug Traffickers". I'm pretty sure it was in an episode of <I><A href="http://www.rosskemponline.stuboo.net/">Ross Kemp On Gangs</A></I></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html">It was only sometime late that I discovered there's an <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saper-vedere/3461218681/">actual shrine</A> to Malverde</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html">in the corner of the parking lot. And I was struck with the thought of <I>Wow, is the best carnitas burrito in the (510) drawing narcotraffickers all the way up as far as Oaktown?</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/img/4D8586DB-0171-4280-9916-53359BE760C0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html">Seems Jesus Malverde, while definitely having a following who pray to him to see that their shipment makes it across the border, is also a bit of a Sinaloan folk-saint with a Robin Hood reputation. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html"><DIV>So probably no, my fave burrito stop is probably not patronized by <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3MayxSvda0">cocaine <STRIKE>cowboys</STRIKE></A> <I>vaqueros</I> so much as it's name is "<A href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-sinaloa-oakland#hrid:eNJc4P8OKIakJw7V5erZBw">Taqueria Sinaloa</A>", and Jesus Malverde is a Sinaloan tradition.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/470466.html">It's just that <A href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_guillermoprieto?currentPage=all">drug trafficking in Sinaloa is the major industry</A>. And local saints usually get local problems laid at their feet.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4FA11C6A-DEDA-43C1-BBD1-87B9D650C11B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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