Those awful Cristeros, rebelling against the blessed secular government

I don't know much about Miss Mexico's now redesigned dress for the Miss Universe pageant but the Independent's concern about her gown and its evocation of the Cristeros seems rather off, somehow.  I expect that there is a fair case to be made that one oughtn't use bullets as decorative objects in a television spectacle and, on the other hand, one Mexican cleric was quoted somewhere as objecting to the dress because it trivialised the Cristero movement.  To second an analogy between the Cristeros and the Ku Klux Klan, however, is right up the Independent's ideological alley: most of the tens of thousands of people who died were Cristeros--and, believe me, there are parts of Mexico where good Catholics remember this, because their grandfathers and grandmothers hid the holy images and the church plate before the churches were burned to the ground and then buried the priests after they were shot--not agents and troops of the "secular government", and the "fiercely anti-clerical laws" might more honestly be described as 'fiercely punitive anti-Catholic laws' adopted in a wholesale 'persecution' of the Church.