You do not have to cross Mexico to see its differences. It is enough—in fact, better—just to cross town. From the guarded mansions on the western periphery of Mexico city to the unpaved, rubbish-filled streets in the eastern slums, you move from one world to another. A trip from San Cristobal de las Casas, a colonial tourist town in Chiapas with a proliferation of Internet cafes, to the villages loyal to Chiapas's Zapatist rebels, with neither electricity nor running water, takes you back decades in time; it also helps explain why rebels remain. More jarring still are the invisible inequalities, the ones hidden in statistics. Two centuries ago the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt wrote: "Mexico is the land of inequality. Perhaps nowhere is there one more appalling in the distribution of fortunes."
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机译：您不必越过墨西哥即可看到其差异。仅仅穿过城镇就足够了，实际上更好。从墨西哥城西部外围的有人看守的豪宅到东部贫民窟中未铺砌的，充满垃圾的街道，您从一个世界转移到另一个世界。从恰帕斯州一个殖民地的旅游小镇圣克里斯托瓦尔德拉斯卡萨斯（San Cristobal de las Casas）到处都是网吧，该小镇遍布着网吧，而这些村庄都忠于恰帕斯州Zapatist叛军，那里既没有电力，也没有自来水，将带您回到数十年前。它还有助于解释为什么叛军仍然存在。更令人震惊的仍然是看不见的不平等，即统计中隐藏的不平等。两个世纪前，德国探险家亚历山大·冯·洪堡（Alexander von Humboldt）写道：“墨西哥是不平等之地。也许在财富分配上再没有其他令人震惊的地方了。”
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