It is an industry of alternative films which, despite generally going straight to DVD, have become very popular in regions of Mexico and the US plagued by drug violence, according to the BBC.

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For decades, though, La Santa Muerte remained an underground figure in isolated regions of Mexico and served largely as an unofficial Catholic saint that women called upon to help with cheating spouses, Chesnut said.

WSJ: Underworld saint becoming more popular in US

For decades, though, La Santa Muerte remained an underground figure in isolated regions of Mexico and served largely as an unofficial Catholic saint that women called upon to help with cheating spouses, Chestnut said.

WSJ: Underworld saint becoming more popular in US

It is estimated that there were once five billion prairie dogs in the plains and inter-mountain regions of the United States, northern Mexico and Canada.

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Some of its major growth projects are in the liquid-rich Eagle Ford and Bakken shale regions in the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico.

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He says that, if the United States legalised existing Mexican immigrants, Mexico would do more to reduce the flow of new ones, by developing poor regions but also by an unprecedented offer to police its own border zone and migrant routes.

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