Maria del Rocio "La Santera" Mendez (13 April 1982-) was a Mexican cult leader who preached the word of Santa Muerte to the people of Bolivia on behalf of the Santa Blanca Cartel.
Biography[]
Maria del Rocio Mendez was born in Jalapa, Mexico in 1982, and she was raised a devout Catholic. Obsessed with the Christian martyrs of the Roman Empire, she became convinced that the job of the church was to condemn the heretic and erase them from the face of the earth. She became a follower of the cult of Santa Muerte as a teenager, and she opened a sanctuary of Santa Muerte before drawing corwds similar to the local Catholic church through her preaching. El Cardenal took a liking to her and introduced her to Rodrigo Carlos Pérez Morales, the leader of the Santa Blanca Cartel. "El Sueño" insisted that she spread the word of Santa Muerte in Bolivia, where she became a leader of the cartel's influence operation. Mendez became known as "La Santera," the "saint-maker," for her preaching. In 2019, her operation in Espiritu Santo province was shut down by American Ghost Recon special forces, as her gold mines were destroyed, her personal sicarios eliminated, and El Sueño's bible stolen from the Buchone Chapel. An angry Sueño ordered Mendez's public execution, but the Ghosts rescued her from Espiritu Santo Base before she could be killed. She refused to cooperate with CIA agent Karen Bowman, resulting in Bowman torturing her for information on the cartel.
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