The National Archive of Mexico (AGN), which is located in the building of a former prison, preserves an interesting collection of documents on Inquisition trials of Armenians.

On January of 2013, the Armenian-Chinese relations research fund chairman Ruben Guinea with his research group (www.eastarmhistory.com) received a permission while filming the documentary titled "Andin --chronicle of the Armenian Travel" to study that collection.

One of the manuscripts of the collection written in 1731 proclaims that in 1722 the son of a young Armenian merchant from New Jugha Marhada, Don Pedro ( Petros ), crossed the Pacific on one of the famous merchant ships, Manila Galleon, routing from China to Acapulco.

Don Pedro achieved great success in Mexico exporting silver to other countries. However, after a while the Inquisition accused Petros of sectarianism, since he was not a parishioner of the Catholic Church but of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The trial lasted several years. During that period Peter was commissioned to write his autobiography which in a century appeared in the Mexican archives.

Thanks to this, there were found many interesting historical facts about the Armenian merchants in AGN who traveled in the early 18th century across the Pacific Ocean.

According to Ruben Guinea, the article about Don Pedro is the first among a series of stories about Armenian merchants in China and Mexico. That initiative will allow the readers to understand how widely the Armenian merchandize network with its center Jugha was cast.

It is necessary to note that Ruben Guineas was born in 1985 in Yerevan. In 2002 he was admitted to the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (Maslennikov’s workshop). In 2004 Guineas moved to China and worked with «National Geographic China». In 2010 and 2011 he headed an expedition in East Turkestan (the Xinjiang). Within the framework of the expedition the group passed 2800 miles from Sian to Urumqi and Kashgar along the northern road and reached Takla Makan desert overcoming challenges of Tarim Valley. Ruben Guineas is the author of documentaries, including a documentary titled World Cities, Shanghai (2008). In 2010 and in 2011 he took part in two archaeological expeditions to Tarim Basin. He is also an author of several scientific articles. Ruben Guineas is the winner of the Armenian President's Award (2014).