Compound that with the fact that they are writing for the illumination of the minds of their fellows in an overwhelmingly Catholic country, there's really not going to be all that many folks around who'd even try to poke holes in the stories.
It is axiomatic that local partisans will blame foreign spies and traitors for current problems! That is true at any time for any society.
Still you can look up the various Masonic sites on the net and they will tell you where each and every chapter is located in which Mexican cities. There's a Benito Juarez chapter ! Now that was a surprise. Benito? Honored by the Masons? Well, there it is. Most of the others are named after the cities and towns where they are located.
Looks about as open an organization in Mexico as it is in the US or Canada.
One thing to watch out for was a warning that a number of the sites claiming that Trotsky was a Mason are also anti-semitic!
There's apparently little in the way of verifiable fact beyond an article he appears to have written about the Masons.
I seriously doubt the Orthodox crowd in Russia have any more depth of understanding of the Masons than anyone else. Fur Shur, they know about Commies!
BTW, I've never engaged any known member of the Masons in conversation to determine the depth of his anti-Catholic sentiment, nor have I ever engaged any known Roman Catholic in conversation to determine the depth of his anti-Mason sentiment.
I don't really think those are big issues in the United States ~ particularly now that we have so many Roman Catholic members of the Republican party (with a safe presumption that at least half the Masons are Republicans as well).
They do seem to get along with each other quite well ~ no assassinations for instance. In Mexico? Would they have room for that given the big press being put on the country by the narcotrafficantes ~
Well, stated.
I know of, at least, one time that a western GL was held in Mexico—Ensenada, I think.
Oddly, the PHQ after me was Jewish.