JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Drums resonated as dozens marched along a busy avenue in Juarez, Mexico, carrying 3-foot-tall plaster statues. Cars with red and white balloons rolled slowly next to them. Some had the same stylized images of a female Grim Reaper fastened to the top of the vehicles.
In a city so accustomed to scenes that would shock most people elsewhere, the procession in honor of La Santa Muerte (Holy Death), went almost unnoticed.
Juarez resident Carmen Castillo was among the throng. She held one of the scythe-clutching figures in her arms…