Sephardic Jewish Israelis: Would you take Spanish/Portuguese citizenship? 

the lady says "Portuguese is always poor", which is not a bad thing because living costs are also lower and makes it more attractive as a retirement place to live. I'm from former Portuguese colony Macau and I have Portuguese citizenship. I don't speak the language though, so I don't really think of moving to Portugal to live or work right now, but I may someday choose to retire there or somewhere else in EU when I get old. Portugal has beautiful weather and delicious food, I always like the Portuguese culture.

You had a hard time finding Portuguese Sephardi because - maybe - most of us came to Brazil. In the northeastern city of Recife we built the first Synagogue of the Americas and became the local elite as "New Christians".

Maybe the girl in the minute 5:24 referred to Melilla, a Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa, sharing a border with Morocco.

At least 8365 Sephardic Jews got the Spanish citizenship by 2019. Not many, it's true, but now their husbands, wives and children will also be entitled to it. Zero disadvantages, you continue to be Israeli or Turkish or whatever and, additionally, you have a Spanish (i. e. European union) passport.

My grandfather was Moroccon Jewish Sephardi he went to Dominican Republic and married my grandmother I personally do not have any connection but I loved watching this video

the last man's response was beautiful!

You gotta appreciate the economics side of the answers.

The first girl looks totally Spanish

Since 1923 Spain gave the right to citicenship to sepharadic people. Since 1978 all people from Iberoamerica, Filipinas, Guinea Ecuatorial and Sephardic origins, after two years of legal residence in Spain have the right to apply to bercome spaniards. The citizens of other countries need 10 years of legal residence in Spain. That is the legal way of the history (see the spanish cicil code). So I do not understand why is this a news now.

I know my grandpa would want the Spanish citizenship he speaks fluent Castillo Spanish. He is from Morocco. My grandmother is Half Greek Sephardi and half Syrian Sephardi .

your videos are very educational. I enjoy them a lot!

The Moroccan version of Ladino is called "haketiya" . One of the interviewees said her roots were in Melilla, and another one said she spoke a Spanish mixed with Moroccan that she learned from her grandmother when Corey asked her if she spoke Ladino. She was probably referring to Haketia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haketia ). It's a somewhat different dialect than the Ladino/Judezmo that was spoken by the Sefaradim who went to the Balkans, Anatolia (Turkey) and Eres Yisrael.

They don't give the citizenship to all Shepardim. Only those who have been in Spain and can prove it, and must have specific lastnames from a list.

Why are there some Jews blaming on us, Spanish people? I have nothing to do with my ancestors! I mean, what happened in 15th Centrury it wasn't good, but neither me nor my compatriots have any kind or responsability for that what our ancestors did. If we want to give Spanish citizenship to sephardic people is just a way to say sorry and to recognise one black part of our past and history, nothing else and nothing more. I love my culture, and jews provided lots of things to us, and we want to keep our culture and history alive, so sephardics deserve to be mention and considered (as well as 'Moriscos', by the way). In fact there's one organization here in Spain who is called: "Caminos del Sefarad" (Routes of Sepharad) which aim is to inform about Jewish heritage in Spain and link some cities and towns in a Route, following the footprints of the Jewish Community who lived here some centuries ago. We are not ashamed of our Jewish or muslim past, as well as we are not ashamed of our roman, celt, visigothic or christian roots. We have to promote and recognise our history, even those "black" episodes, but we can't continue blaming on our ancestors, and I will thank you if you do the same. I think that both, Spain and Israel (or Sephardic people, allover the world, in this case), have different and more important things to worry about than something that happened centuries ago. If we want to provide you the opportunity of acquaring Spanish citizenship is because we haven't forget you and because you were treated in such a bad way, but I think that being Spanish means something more than having the Spanish citizenship. If you like to have it and if you want to "come back", you are welcome and you will be considered exactly as us. But we don't care about religion or race.

What's funny is portugal is not poor nor has it been neither has spain both have high standards of living almost the same actually and in history neither country was ever considered "poor"

So today we know (the deadline to apply passed) that 132.000 Sephardim applied for Spanish citizenship.

Melilla is a Spanish city on the African coast bordering Morocco. Pronounced Meliya. I have no idea where Milia in Greece is, and I'm from Greece. There is an island called Milos, but it never had Jewish presence.

In Portugal they say that one in every five Portuguese descend from jewish people! Because when The Catholic kings of castilla e Aragon, which form today´s Spain, expeld their jewish population. Which was aproximatly 200 000, about half of them (100 000) came to Portugal! But the reality in Portugal was diferent from Spain. The jewish population was obliged to convert to christianity. Even the Spanish use to call The portuguese Jews, or half jews!

Hello to all Jews watching this, and a heartfelt Hola! to all Sephardic Jews. I'm a Spaniard and not a Jew, although probably some of my ancestors were Jewish, you never know. I'll try to sum up the conditions and procedure to get the Spanish citizenship (I don't know about the Portuguese one, although I bet it would be +/- the same, but better, as always, double check with each consulate). So, on the Spanish side, a special Law vas voted and approved giving super-speed citizenship to any person, Jewish or not, "proving" they have Sephardic roots. This is very important to a lot of people in Latin America, who are no longer Jewish since many generations; however, the fact they may have some Sephardic Jewish ancestors make them immediately eligible for Spanish citizenship. But of course this law applies to any person anywhere in the world. This special law says, literally, "In short, this Law aims to be the meeting point between Spaniards of today and the descendants of those who were unjustly expelled from 1492, and is justified in the common determination to build together, in the face of the intolerance of past times, a new space of coexistence and harmony, which reopens forever to the communities expelled from Spain, the gates of their old country." So, please, lost cousins, Shalom into your old country! Hopefully, even you hate Spain with all your guts, this will somehow give some peace to your ancestors by granting you the right to a citizenship you should never have been deprived of in the first place. This super-speed procedure does NOT require you neither to live in Spain (you may live in your country forever and never come to Spain for even an hour) NOR to speak or learn Spanish. Nada! All that is required is to prove a connection to a Sephardic individual or family expelled from Sefarad in 1492. So, you'll need a certificate from your rabbi in your country, a certificate from the chairman of the Jewish association in your city of residence or birth, and, if possible, a certificate from the Chairman of the Permanent Commission of the Federation of Jewish Associations in Spain. That's all you really need. However, you can add up as many other papers you want to give you extra priority. These papers include a birth certificate or ketubah or marriage certificate saying that your birth or marriage was celebrated according to the Jewish traditions of Castile (to be clear, this means "all of Spain", i.e. if you followed the Jewish traditions of Navarre or Andalusia, those regions still count as "of Castile", and so on), any certificate saying you understand +/- either haketia or Ladino or modern Spanish (remember, this is not a requisite, it's just to give you extra priority) or any other studies or work in connection with Spain; a report saying your family name (or one of your family names) is Sephardic; or a certificate stating you were a member of any charity doing some work either in Spain or for the benefit of Spanish or Sephardic people. This is not the full list of course (please check with the Spanish consulate in your city or country); but how difficult can it really be, to ANY Jew, to get a certificate from ANY rabbi, saying you are Sephardic? Please remember that this special law does NOT require you to go live in Spain at any point nor to learn Spanish. Nada! Now, the one stupid, bureaucratic thing is that this very special Law, which tries to repair the wrongs of 500 years ago, is limited in time. With all the extensions that were granted, I'm sorry to announce the last day to subit an (incomplete) application was the 1st September 2019. This is of course very silly and contrary to the very spirit of this law, for what's the use of waiting for 500 years if, for some reason, between 2015 when this law was approved and today, 2021, you had never heard of it and now you can't apply, even if you can prove you're the most Spaniard of all Sephardic Jews? It's complete nonsense, right? Of course it is! So, I hope that a majority of Jewish people will pressure their leaders everywhere to in turn put the pressure on the Spanish authorities to extend this law "sine die", that is, with no expiry date; which is the only decent way of really offering the descendants of the unjustly expelled the right to RECOVER their citizenship their ancestors should never have been deprived of. As the law itself says, "which reopens FOREVER to the communities expelled from Spain, the gates of their old country." "Forever" means "forever", not "until 23:59:00 Spanish time of 1st September 2019". For those interested further in the matter, here are the links to the official websites (in Spanish, but google translator is, as always, your friend): 1) Text of the Law: www.boe.es/boe/dias/2015/06/25/pdfs/BOE-A-2015-7045.pdf 2) Access to the Spanish Department of Justice's portal to submit your file (even if incomplete) and obtain a file number: www.justicia.sefardies.notariado.org/liferay/web/sefardies/inicio Note: It is my general understanding, from the Law itself, Part III, paragraph 1, that it is ALWAYS possible, for Sephardic Jews (and other people, not necessarily Jewish nor connected with Spain) to get Spanish citizenship via a "carta de naturaleza" or naturalization card, which is given "at the discretion" of the Spanish authorities (if the ones in your Consulate won't give a f...k, you can always try the Spanish authorities in Spain itself, probably you'll have a better luck). In general, to get this naturalization card, the procedure is +/- the same: any bit of paper proving any kind of connection to Spain + your carefully redacted letter saying how deeply moved you are to claim back the nationality of your ancestors and how great is paella and Real Madrid and how well you dance flamenco. Shalom y Bienvenidos de vuelta a casa, Judíos! Isn't it great to have a second or third home? ;-)

I'm Portuguese and here we don't describe people by their religion. Saying someone is Jew as to refer to their ethnic background is weird to us, since ethnoreligion is something that doesn't really exist in our society. So all Jews are normal people to us, no difference at all. I would love to visit Israel someday, it seems a great country.

I told my Colombian grandmother about Spain’s reparation and ask if she would be interested in a passport to which she answered “ our ancestor have lived in this country for 500 years, we have settled our root on this land. They can keep their passport!” We are catholic but we have many ladino words and hidden customs that we can trace back to our Sephardic ancestors.

I'm from Brazil, portuguese descendant, and I'm sephardic who became christian and change the family name to Falcão, Oliveira, Souza, Marinho(My family names) as tell the history.

I'm a Portuguese Jew 🔯, my ancestors were deported from Portugal in 1492

When Spain started to harass Jews, many of them moved to Turkey. Istanbul had large Jewish popuolation in ottoman times. So why not to ask move back to Turkey?

My dad is a Sephardic Jew (his family is from Italy, Poland, Turkey & Morocco), my mom is Christian, and I don't see the point in this law. First, it's a little too late. Sephardis were expelled in the 1490s, almost 600 years ago. They're only doing this now?! Second, most Sephardis don't need it. Most live happily in Israel, the USA, Canada and France. They don't need to go back. I wouldn't live there and I don't think my dad's family would either. Still a pretty country though.

As a Spaniard i find all of this very interesting. Of course let's hope those really beautiful girls come here 🐸🐸🐸🐸 And by the way my excuses by all the wrongs the Catholic kings did to all of you 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ A real shame in our history. The same way as our treatment to our moorish people. Very good work in that video 🙂👌👍👍👍❤️❤️

for a first time i see someone from yugoslavia in israel wwwoohooooo iitt soo cool my father from serbia also!!😂😂😂

I’m Sephardic on fathers side I took a Spanish passport

I'm ready to move and forget everything about my family

5:23 - Could be Melilla, a Spanish city in northern Morocco.

Sephardic have that darker complexion like the Portuguese.

That Girl is lovely I’m of Sephardic origins as well.

interesting video, don't know how i ended up watching this but was interesting to watch anyways.

I'm Puerto Rican and Spainiard🇵🇷🇪🇸. But 2 of my last names from my parents have Sephardic origins. My dad is Diaz and my mom's is Cabrera

As a Spaniard i wouldn't want any of them to achieve citizenship like that and i have Great respect and admiration for Israel. But i just think it is really stupid this kind of weird Aliya sideways. These ppl are not connected to Spain in any way now.... and i am a lawyer who sometimes helps out foreigners get hold of the Spanish citizenship like close friends and my own wife family who have worked real hard and integrated to the costums here and it is really hard to obtain the citizenship... And i can see this Sephardic option in the procedures i work with and i find it extremely stupid almost an insult to legal immigrants in Spain and the EU.

Sephardic Jew here, what kind of question is this? Would Palestians (Arabs) take citizenship of countries like Syria, SA or Yemen back? The undertone is obvious, the asker denies our middle East roots. Jews spread from Israel to Egypt, Algeria. Morocco to Portugal and Spain. Exile after exile also in Portugal and ended up big time in Holland. (Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam, pretty famous)

Hebrew with a French accent is so cool

if it's was an easy thing to do, i would've do it long ago. but it takes about 1.5-3 years, and costs a lot of money and effort. i actually wanted to start the process, but i think it's complicated. i even started to learn spanish because of that, and because it's a beautiful language.

This comment section is weird asf

Correcting the gentleman who spoke first. People can do whatever they like is faulty philosophy. You cannot harm other people. You cannot harm your state. Freedom comes with responsibility and consequently with limits.

The beautiful girl who says she's from "Melia" means "Melilla", a Spanish city in North Africa. There are still about 600 Jews living there, but back in the 1930s they were around 7,000. There is still an area called "Hebraic Quarter".

I am not a Jew but my ancestors from my mother and fathers side were Sephardic Jews. I started the process, I got my geneaology done professionally and it reaches back one thousand years, I had to take it to a Rabí at a Jewish Federation and they certified it and I have until 2019 to apply in Spain but I don’t want to anymore. Israel catches my attention more. But I don’t practice Judaism or speak Hebrew ( thanks to the Spanish Inquisition).

just proves that the the law is stupid. why give citizenship to people that doesnt want it or need it, and most of all has nothing to do with the country.

I did. But because I did it right at the beginning I did not need to take a Spanish exam. It's much harder now. You have to go to Spain and apply and pass a Spanish exam. as to Portugal the process is very slow.

The first girl talking about why she wouldn't leave reminds me dearly of Palestinians talking about their land.

I had gotten my DNA done and shows I am Sephardic from dads side I was born in the USA I think I could also take citizenship in Spain if I could and if I knew how to do it :)

Many Sephardic Jews also came to Americas where they composed a major population group in New Amsterdam.

i am born and raised in Los Angeles, California, USA, and my mom is from Honduras(in central america), and my father is from El Salvador(also in central america) but i just noticed that my ancestors were or maybe are Sephardic jews?

That guy is the only person from ex Yugoslavia in all of this videos...

True, the Hebrews were driven from Portugal around the 16th century.

I am a descendant of Sephardic ancestry. Ancestors migrating to Puerto Rico I also have Taino blood of my father. American government treats both bloodlines as they no longer exist.

Melilla: spanish city in the coast of North Africa

Considering there's an arrest warrant out for Netanyahu in Spain, it's little wonder so many of these comments are ignorant and biased against Spain..One of the most glorious countries in the world, and true humanitarians. Go Spain!

I wish I had to opportunity to explore my Jewish/Spanish ancestry in Israel. But my family is too far removed from the Jewish side as we have been in the United States since the 17th Century and we converted to Catholicism. I have been to Reform Temples and I feel very comfortable there. I have not attended an Orthodox service, so I don't know how I'd feel about that?

Maybe Rich Portuguese will turn Israel into a vacation country...

Jews are welcome to come to Spain

The reaction of most Jews living in Israel is as if he asks them to leave Israel to go Spain or Portugal. The fear is palpable. I felt sorry for them that they feel this pressure.

There are two kinds of Moroccan Jews: Toshavim the Berber Jews who lived in Morocco for more than 2000 years and Sephardim those who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula. Moroccan Jews therefore are not Mezrahim

This is pretty curious because both of my surnames are jewish, and a lot of jews had to convert to Christianism a long time ago back in the Middle Age

Americans with Great-Grandparents can't get citizenship in Poland or Finland, Sweden for example in my case, but Spain is going back to 1492 to give people citizenship, WTF?!?!?! Will I ever get a break?? Shalom.

Why would Sephardic people be considered traitors for returning?

My wife applied for Spanish citizenship in 2018 and still didn't become Spanish. She has sephardic roots from Granada and is Venezuelan.

Today I just find out I'm 19% Sephardi and 81% Arabian btw I'm from Saudi Arabia :p

Portuguese are poor (old lady says). We´ve a low cost of life (only habitation is too high and is a real problem), beautifull beaches, great food, great wine, great weather (if we compare with all europe), great people (we can speak in english with you :D) and a peaceful country.

1:25 ... " when you are born in a place, your family is there, your culture is there, you can't just move away and forget everything, some people do that but I find it extremely hard"... I really don't agree.

Interesting how many people wouldn't try to get citizenship in Spain or Portugal!! ! I am an American-Israeli and I live in Spain (well, Catalonia actually, so some would argue that point) with my Catalan partner. I have permanent residency here and I have never felt more Jewish in my life. It's amazing just how not connected I am to this part of Europe, and how being here amongest the churches, chistians, pork and shell fish pallella, makes me feel more Jewish than ever despite feeling isoated by feeling that I am the only Jew for 100 miles.

Anyway, the relationship between the two shores of the Mediterranean is much older: *PHOENICIANS*. From coast to coast, *2250 YEARS AGO*. So this is nothing new. What's the problem?

You had to have talk with older people. Younger generations are losing their roots. In fact, "ladino" is disappearing, even though there are efforts against the extinction of that spanish dialect.

Shalom. O ETERNO ADONAI É UM. AMÉM. Com orgulho e honra Sou Judia Marrana Raiz até a morte!!! Costume do Sefaradim do Marranismo seguimos no estado de São Paulo, Brasil 🇧🇷 Terra do Marranismo Judaico !! Jamais esqueceremos a anti semita, cruel e infame inquisição católica romana na ✡️🇪🇸Sefarad España Jamais esqueceremos a anti semita, cruel e infame inquisição católica romana nos trezentos anos do Brasil colônia. Jamais esqueceremos a anti semita Guerra do Paraguai durante a inquisição no Brasil que exterminou 90% dos homens Brasiguaios Judeus Marranos Espanhóis no Paraguai ✡️🇵🇾 Somos ✡️🇪🇸Judeus Marranos Espanhóis, Falamos Ladino, Galego Português no estado de São Paulo Brasil. Marranismo Judaico Vive !! Nas ESNOGAS Casa Judaica há mais de quinhentos anos no Brasil ✡️🇧🇷 Desde estado de São Paulo Brasil Terra do Marranismo Judaico!!! Maior comunidade Judaica Sefaradim fora de Israel 🇮🇱 apoio total à Israel 🇮🇱 apoio total ao Primeiro Ministro Natanyahu. Dia 25 de Fevereiro fomos para Avenida Paulista, Sefarad São Paulo Brasil 🇧🇷 Megamanifestações com Bandeiras de Israel 🇮🇱 🇧🇷Juntas em prol de nossa Israel 🇮🇱 Lindo sermos Marranos !!! Somos do MARRANISMO termo milenar usado há mais de 2000 dois mil anos ; MARRANOS vem do verbo antigo idioma Ladino MARRA significa = ser contrário , durão, teimoso em sermos Judeus. ✡️🇧🇷🇪🇸Shalom desde estado de São Paulo Brasil Terra do Marranismo Judaico!!!

During the occupation by the nazis of all Europe, the generalisimo Francisco Franco, who had jewish origins, gave spanish passports to the Jews who asked for, because he wanted to save them from deportation. So, he saved 70 000 Jews, chiefly from Greece, Yougoslavia, and even France. This information is given according to Mr Avramavel, chairman of the jewish communauty of Thessaloniki. Now, the jewish Ladinos of Istanbul are still speaking a perfect classical spanish and some go to Spain for visiting the former house of their ancestors. In 1370, according to Cuvelier who wrote the chanson de geste de Du Guesclin, the third of the spanish population was jewish.

It's the city of Melilla,north Africa but belongs to Spain 5:21

My great-grandmothers family descend from Spanish Jews who migrated to Zacatecas,Mexico from Sevilla, Spain and Arab ancestry on my grandmothers side. Can i get Spanish citezenship.

Having more than one legal citizenship/passport is an advantage in troubled times. When flying and the Hijackers say all Americans and Israelis give us you passports.

Melia is not in Greece. It is a Spanish enclave in Morocco. It is right next to the Moroccan city of Nador. Spain took the Canary Islanda (Fuerte Ventura, Lamzarote, Grancanaria) ... and ghe cities of Melia and Ceuta from Morocco....and the Moroccans are very upset about it until now.....

I'm arab and I love jews ! They're funny

First time I hear of this law, but I have a general wondering of sorts, at the time of inquisitions not only Jews were kicked out of Iberia, but also Muslims, whom if they have stayed there now would have Spanish or Portuguese passports, so if I were a Muslim whose his great, great, great, great, great "add as much great as you see fit" grandfather/grandmother was kicked out of there, will I get the passport, and if my ancestors were Jews at the time but now I'm a Muslim will I get the passport also? I think such questions should be answered by the governments of Spain and Portugal!

With his heavy French accent, the last guy probably already enjoys a EU citizenship.

There is a chapter of Judaism little known to the Jewish world and discovered only a few decades ago. Most of the Jews from Spain were expelled and fled to Portugal, which was very near and by the 16th century, 1/3 of the Portuguese population were Jews. Then the Inquisition started hunting them. Most of Sephardic Jews descendants live in Brazil, where most of the forced converted Jews fled to, then a Portuguese colony, escaping from the Christian Inquisition in Portugal. But even in Brazil, after some time they started being persecuted there too, so they started practicing Judaism in secret at home, while publicly they were official Christians. The Brazilian Ashkenazi historian Anita Novinsky, born in Poland, studied the Inquisition archives, kept in Portugal until today and made this incredible discover, publishing many books about the subject. It is estimated that around 40 million Brazilians descend from those Jews expelled from Spain and that later on fled from Portugal to Brazil. Also, some of the families are going back to Judaism and some of them went to live in Israel. The Synagogue without Frontiers, led by the Rabbi Gilberto Ventura, himself half Ashkenazim half Sephardic is making history by digging that part of Judaism hidden from the world for centuries. I suggest that you make some more videos focusing in the Sephardic Jews too. Congrats for your good work!!

as a person who has Spanish blood these people are not Spanish, there is no connection you’re talking about 500 years ago. Furthermore Spain is a Catholic country. Why would a Jewish person that’s never been there will move to a country that’s Catholic makes no sense.

The last guy has the deepest voice I ever heard...

Many sefardim in america have no clue of their sefardic background. Most of us of so called "latino" origin are sefardim.

I think a lot of Sephardic people would apply for Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship. Sephardic people are in fact Hispanic. So for Sephardic people it‘s something natural. Just like Moroccon and Turkish Christian would apply for French/Spanish or Greek Citizenship.

pft considering the centuries it them took to give it out If I were Sephardi I would spit on it :s yet..it could be useful XD

From 1:20 to 1:49 ... is that the Maha-Mantra I hear ... the one the hare krishnas always chant ?

I already have dual citizenship .. If I can get more why not .. having more than 1 nationality usually only has benefits ..

What I know about my ancestors , that I have read on an ancestry website...on my mom side, they lived in the area of Spain and Portugal, after they were exiled during the inquisition they moved to Holland, where they could practice Judaism with no problem. after this some of them moved to the Caribbean where I'm from. Levi / Maduro was their surname. On my dad side they are mostly Roman catholic and I was brought up in this religion, I was baptized , holy communion and all that. that's why I wear a golden cross and a golden star of David on a chain. acknowledging both religions.

1:50 Harel is 50% Moroccan and 50% Turkish and 100% gorgeous

Are there any Sephardic films or documentaries that anyone reccomends to watch? I'm really interested in Sephardic, Mizrahi and Yemeni Jewish culture, music, dialects language and traditions. So far I haven't found anything on youtube except a few novelty videos.

My God they can never just answer the question without 15 min of jabber before the answer

The nationality should not be given to anyone that does not speak the language, does not have any Sephardic traditions from XV century or connections to that country in some form. Based on this, probably 1% of those who were rewarded the nationality qualifies, the rest just want a European nationality to escape the obvious ultraorthodox demographic catastrophe. In a similar manner, I am not given the Israeli nationality by claiming some % of jewish ancestry and not speaking Hebrew.

If I am Sephardic, can I move to Israel??? I'd rather live in Israel than Spain. Anyone know if this is an issue to acquire Israeli citizenship??

So my father has been forced outside of Palestine and now I have no Palestinian document that proves my identiy and I had to travel to many countries to have decent life for me and my family while these Israelis did come from all over the world to call my land a jewish state?

You need to speak Spanish to apply. Portugal is more lax to apply.

The question is badly formulated, he's always asking about "moving to Spain or Portugal". I don't know about Spain, but Portugal does not require you to move to Portugal in order to acquire citizenship.

All my familly are sefarade , they go live to france and usa until Quebec canada but they convert to catholic for not be expulsed again

Many Israelis have foreign citizenships. This is not new.

Is that Hare Krishnas chanting in the background?

MELIA, maybe is MELILLA, the spanish city in nother Africa next to Morocco, pronounced "meliya" in spanish.

i would never go back. no voy a regresar pa espana porque persuiguiron nosotros porque estubemes diferentes. my family from sephardic roots came to mexico por un gran razon. si la paiz de espana nos quieren volvere dilen ellos que controlan su gobierno que nos pagara quelas deberia.

i'm moroccan can i get the spanish citizenship ? LOL