North is north and south is south

摘要

Sooner or later, visitors to Mexico who display the slightest curiosity about the country are inevitably told: "Ah, well, you know, of course, that there are two Mexicos." This tends to happen in any country that is moving rapidly from a traditional way of life to the cut and thrust of a globalised economy, but in Mexico the divide goes back a long way before globalisation, a long way before the pri, a long way even before the Spanish conquest. It goes back to the beginning of the world.