SOURCE : Sacrifice Today, In the Andes – And Closer
In reporting both the Matamoros murders and the investigation of General Manuel Noriega of Panama, the media wrongly assumed a connection between drug-running, Satanism and Afro-Caribbean religions. Santeria and Palo Mayombe were widely slandered as being devil-cults. Even Time magazine published these false innuendoes, obtained from frightened sources in the Border Patrol. In fact, Palo Mayombe is a cult of the dead, an offshoot of Santeria, and practitioners of Palo may use graveyard remains to call the dead, but no evidence has been found of human sacrifice. (The last known human sacrifice in the Caribbean took place in the 1880s, but no one accused a palero of this crime.)
