Suspirants: Change your speech!

By Lillian Briseño

It has been said ad nauseam that Mexico is not one country, but many. The most obvious thing to say is that northern Mexico is not the same as central or southern Mexico, but even within these great divisions, we continue to find many other smaller ones that lead to enormous inequalities.

When we speak of the north, we almost always refer to Nuevo León or the rest of the border states with large industrialized areas, while in the center of the country, the immediate reference is to the highly populated and liberal CDMX. In the south, in that pitiful south, we think of the poverty that distinguishes Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest states.