Ku Klux Klan Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Americas === In Mexico, the KKK endorsed and funded the Calles government during the 1920s [[Cristero War]] with the intention of destroying Catholicism there.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meyer|first=Jean A.|title=La Cristiada: the Mexican people's war for religious liberty|date=2013|publisher=Square One Publishers|isbn=978-0757003158|oclc=298184204}}</ref> On 1924 vigilantes claimed to have organized themselves into a Klan against "criminals", publishing a program of "social epuration".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-12-05 |title=El día que llegó el Ku Klux Klan a México |language=es |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/el-dia-que-llego-el-ku-klux-klan-mexico |access-date=2022-06-18 |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618211033/https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/el-dia-que-llego-el-ku-klux-klan-mexico |url-status=live }}</ref> In [[São Paulo]], Brazil, the website of a group called Imperial Klans of Brazil was shut down in 2003, and the group's leader was arrested.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI158042-EI306,00-Jovem+ligado+a+Ku+Klux+Klan+e+detido+em+Sao+Paulo.html|title=Jovem ligado Ku Klux Klan detido em So Paulo|access-date=March 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311210858/http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI158042-EI306,00-Jovem+ligado+a+Ku+Klux+Klan+e+detido+em+Sao+Paulo.html|archive-date=March 11, 2014 |url-status=live|language=pt-BR}}</ref> The Klan has also been established in the [[Canal Zone]].{{sfn|Chalmers|1987|p=319}} Klan was present in [[Cuba]], under the name of Ku Klux Klan Kubano, directed against both West Indian migrant workers and [[Afro-Cuban]] and using the fear of the 1912 [[Negro Rebellion]].{{sfn|Chalmers|1987|p=319}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Perez |first1=Louis A. Jr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6IWzZM0I4QgC&dq=%2522ku+klux+klan%2522+cuba&pg=PA55 |title=Cuban Studies 40 |last2=Stoner |first2=K. Lynn |last3=Perez |first3=Gladys Marel Garcia |last4=Chapa |first4=Teresa |last5=Hynson |first5=Rachel M. |date=2010-01-31 |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |isbn=978-0822978480 |page=55 |language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page