Bulgarian Mexicans

Most Bulgarians arrived in the country during the Second World War, which resulted in a mass emigration of Bulgarians fleeing from political issues. Although Mexico was not a major destination for Bulgarian immigrants; several hundred migrants from Bulgaria immigrated to Mexico in order to travel to the United States in the mid-1960s after it passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which abolished the quota system based on national origins.[2] Recently, many Bulgarians, particularly women, have been trafficked from their homes mainly with the promise of going to the United States, however, were sent to Mexico where they were made to become prostitutes and/or sex slaves.[3] The Bulgarian community in Mexico has been small since that time, even so, Bulgaria has contributed with remarkable citizens, mainly with scientists who work in faculties of the National University Autonomous University of Mexico.

• Leonid Georgiev, physicist
• Dobrina Cristeva, actress
• Margarita Stoytcheva, Electrochemical scientist at the Autonomous University of Baja California
• Kiril Todorov, president of the Mexican Swimming Federation

• Myriam Moscona, Journalist, poet and translator, also of Sephardic origin
• Isabel Madow, model
• Claudia Sheinbaum, academic and politician

• Bulgaria–Mexico relations