When I was a younger I had asked a Mexican cab driver while looking at all the Catholic churches if there were any jews in the city and he proclaimed "we got rid of them". Although it's been scrubbed from the American minds the Mexicans blame the death of Jesus on the jews.
Allegedly many of the worst abuses by "Spanish landowners" of the natives were done by marranos, the supposedly converted crypto-jews. Many of them choose to come to the New World to get away from the Spanish Inquisition and continue their old ways.
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