Luis de Carvajal and the beginning of Mexico City.

Argentina filters believers out of public service, while Mexico jails priests for telling their congregations to vote.

“In just thinking of Him my spirit rejoices.”

Sam Ravel and Pancho Villa.

The Jews of San Miguel Allende.

Their dreams were unrealistic, but their evaluation of Communism wasn’t.

Luis de Carvajal’s miniature memoir.

A crypto-Jew’s diary, written so as to be hidden from the Inquisition.