In April 2024, Texas officials raided a ‘stash house’ just outside Fort Worth used by a Mexican-based drug gang, Mendoza-Nandho. They were shocked by what they found inside.

Besides five illegal immigrants, there was an altar dedicated to the Santa Muerte cult. Officials even found recent offerings, cigarettes and tequila, that gang members had made to this hideous god.

Santa Muerte, also known as the Lady of Holy Death, is depicted by a female skeleton. It combines elements of Catholicism, paganism, and the occult and has become the patron saint of many of the cartels. Gang members believe this deity not only offers protection, but promises a quick death if it does happen and safe passage into the after life.

There have been rumors for years that drug cartels were involved in satanism and occultic rites.

This was again brought up by Tom Homan in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Charisma News reports.

Homan will be serving in Donald Trump’s administration as America’s ‘border czar.’ In the interview he cited the cartels involvement with witchcraft and satanism.

“It’s so evil,” Homan told Carlson. “I know that in El Salvador, when MS-13 ran the country before Bukele, there was a religious component, kind of voodoo witchcraft component, to MS-13 where they were worshipping the devil.”

“It’s a component of the cartels. You see it in Mexico as well, all through Latin America, is that you come across that,” Homan continued. “They worship death. And, like, formally worship it. … They got, you know, statues, statute there and memorabilia worshipping death as a consequence of not allowing them to do their business.”

This connection to satanism and the occult explains the violence and brutality shown by these groups.

Jesus warned that Satan comes to “steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10). Satan does not just want steal people’s freedom, his ultimate goal is to kill and destroy. By involving themselves in satanic rites, the cartels are driven by the same desires.

This connection between illicit drugs and the satanic should not surprise us.

In Revelation 18:23 and Galatians 5:20, the Bible talks about sorceries. This is a translation of the Greek word ‘pharmakeia,’ from which we get our modern word pharmacy.

But in ancient times, the word had a darker meaning.

“From φάρμακον a drug, and thence a poison, an enchantment,” writes Marvin Vincent in his acclaimed book, Vincent Word Studies.

Vincent then cites how Plato used this word. “Plato says: ‘There are two kinds of poisons used among men which cannot clearly be distinguished. There is one kind of poison which injures bodies by the use of other bodies according to a natural law… but there is another kind which injures by sorceries and incantations and magic bonds, as they are termed, and induces one class of men to injure another as far as they can, and persuades others that they, above all persons, are liable to be injured by the powers of the magicians. (‘Laws,’ xi., 933).”

Is America’s infiltration by drug cartels part of a broader strategic attack by the satanic realm (see Ephesians 6:12)?