Objective:

This article analyzes the discourse of poverty in Mexico. For this, the seven National Development Plans (1983-2019) executed in the country and the government reports derived from the consequent federal administrations were analyzed and maps of poverty, marginalization and infant mortality were made.

Methodology:

Documentary and descriptive analysis in the qualitative part, and geographical in the quantitative part, the diagnosis, the actions of economic and social policy, to reduce hunger, inequality and fundamentally poverty are identified. With the reports, the progress reported by the governments is verified.

Results:

It highlights the homogeneity in relation to the causal diagnosis of poverty: inequality, asymmetries in the regional development of the country, low wages, ethnic and racial discrimination, limited opportunities to access quality public services such as education and health.

Limitations:

Being a documentary and descriptive study, it did not delve into the structural causes of poverty, marginalization, and hunger.

Conclusions:

The social and economic policy implemented during the period studied is quite similar, and in general terms, it has been insufficient to provide a solution to the phenomena attributed as causes of poverty in the country.

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