Call to Sephardim to Immigrate to Mexico

Our Program

When, in 1492, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon expelled believers in the unity of God, those very same Catholic rulers simultaneously financed Columbus’s discovery of the New World: a new world in which the exiled would find a homeland and the Spanish a New Spain.

Spain’s conquering monks baptized the peninsular Arabs and Jews just as they did the new world’s natives, converting Moors into Moriscos, Jews into Judaizers, natives into Indians, and all of them into new Christians. How could they not see that this new race, a fusion of Oriental peoples with Occidentals, would eventually liberate the conquered land and reclaim religious and political independence?

This is our origin, but the monks, professed celibates, could never have been our progenitors, and we Hispanic Americans vigorously defend those who, even today, fall victim to religious and political fanaticism in the Old World. Let us enter the journalistic arena to fight for the rights of our parents and grandparents, that is to say, for humanity. Let us publicize the autos-da-fé that took place during the last century in order to see ourselves reflected in the surnames. Let us condemn the cruelties of the Inquisition and proclaim Jewish fraternity, which is liberal, masonic, and uniquely universal. That is our program.

The Editors