On the scene with Mexico's death saint

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Kevin Roderick • November 26 2008 1:50 PM

Hernandez in Mexico Los Angeles journalist Daniel Hernandez, on extended book research in Mexico City, makes his video debut on Current TV with a story from the neighborhood of Tepito on the growing worship of Santa Muerte, "a kind of female incarnation of the Grim Reaper."

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