Police said the victims mixed the potion themselves and drank it 'to acquire some certain kind of powers.'
Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria 'power' ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday.Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police chief, said four men and one woman died after drinking a mix of substances he did not specify.He said they were involved in Santeria, a faith that began in Cuba when African slaves blended Yoruba spiritual beliefs with Roman Catholic traditions.
In 2018, a man from a suburb of Mexico City confessed to killing at least 10 women, and claimed to have sold the bones of some of his victims to practitioners of Santeria. The suspect said he sold the bones to a man he met at a bus stop.Parts of the man's confession may have to be taken with a grain of salt; he initially confessed to killing 20 women, but was able to provide details — names and description of the victims — in only 10 cases.According to the U.S.
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