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I wonder if the pistol came to Mexico with a German fleeing from the end of WWII.

I'd wonder if it might have made its way north from Argentina just before or after WWII. The Argentines had produced the DGFM version of the 1911A1 [Argie Modelo 1927] and the simplified Hafdasa/ Balester-Molina, both in .45 and using the 1911 magazine. But for someone who wanted a 9mm P at that time, or had access to a 9mm SMG and ammo, the idea of common ammunition might have been an attractive one. Argentina was a supposed neutral through most of WWII, not having declared war against the Axis until March of 1945, and Juan Domingo Peron took over in Argentina on 04 June 1946. It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to extrapolate a German-sympathetic fellow who chose to leave post-war Argentina as a matter of health, and took his faithful travelling companion along with him...or her. It'd make a dandy plot for a W.ER.B. Griffith book....

And in Mexico, circa the late 1920s, the Christero War that some have described as the final stage of the Mexican Revolution was still noisy at least until 1929. It does not take to much of a stretch to also or istead imagine that a veterano of that conflict- of either side- might want a very effective personal weapon, even five years, or ten, or twenty, after the shooting had -officially- stopped. The Mexicans still take matters of honour and revenge very seriously, and perhaps did so even a bit more then. Ah, if only they could talk.

I once knew a fellow who might have been a good one to ask about it, having been an importer of *Mexican Rugers*,among a great many other things but he is no longer with us, since 1998.