INEQUALITY AND THE NORTHERN MEXICAN BORDER: A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH

This paper is an attempt to shed light on how the extreme inequality affecting the northern Mexican border conditions the fulfillment of sustainable development goals. Using the concepts of "resilience" and "power asymmetry", the author analyzes how inequality, like a pernicious political actor, destabilizes the original sense of the political action. To this end, the five Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are most related to inequality are analyzed to verify if they are actually being met. In addition, the potential effects they will have when met will be conceptualized. We conclude by restating the existence of a perverse effect of inequality on those policies established to achieve sustainable development goals.