I found this interesting:

In point of fact, hostility toward Christians in Mexico is nothing new and the nation has a long history of violent repression of the Church by ruling Freemasons. After Mexico’s Revolution of Ayutla (1854-1855), nearly all of the key figures in the government were Freemasons and fiercely anticlerical, typified by President Benito Juárez, who adopted a Constitution in 1857 that attacked the property rights and possessions of the Church