I wrote elsewhere about how, in the aftermath of VII, nations tend to fall prey to their worst instincts. In the case of Mexico, this is superstition and paganism.
It's like Montezuma's revenge, like that seed of wildness, of paganism, of tribalism, has been unleashed once again, undoing all the work of the European missionaries. The Rosary and Christ have become empty symbols, they just look cool tattooed on your back. A weeping Christ somehow, for him, expresses the Satanic and defiant pain of a drug-dealer, etc.