Unfortunately, it was also linked to an anti-Semitic website, and I was forced to change the comment settings for this post to require that I approve any new commentator. Apologies in advance for any minor inconveniences. While I hope those that those of you who are looking for this post will spend the time to look at other posts as well, and learn something about the culture and history of Mexico.
However, if you are one of those people who are looking for confirmation of some moronic racist ideology, I suggest you go elsewhere.
Looking for a place in which they could retain their Spanish identity, they focused on Mexico. In large numbers of them left Spain and Portugal for the New World. The inquisition had not yet come to Nueva Espagna and the new arrivals soon married into prominent Mexican families, became priests and bishops and enjoyed a 40 year period during which time, many began to practice Judaism openly.
Doctors, lawyers. Conversos were not overtly persecuted, but were eventually assimilated into the general population. The Inquisition was never as virulent in Mexico as it was in Spain, where more than 4, people were burned at the stake. By contrast, between when the Inquisition was established in Mexico and when it ended, only about people were actually burned at the stake.
Perhaps the same number died under torture or in prison, either awaiting trial or after sentencing. There were no popular outcries against Jews. The Inquisition was imposed from Spain. It cannot be blamed on Mexicans. Later in the same decade, neo-Nazi right wingers, financed from Berlin, staged anti-Jewish demonstrations in Mexico City.
