Exclusión legal del indígena en el proceso de codificación en México

The article demonstrates how European enlightenment thinking affected the Mexican codification process in the 19th century, with negative consequences for the recognition of indigenous identity and its rights, which was suppressed for the benefit of a modern civil identity that contrasted with the social and ethnic complexity existing. In this context, it is argued that the codification and its way of thinking alienated the jurist from reality, justifying an equality between unequals through legal formulas that today need to be questioned and reformulated, so that an ontologically correct Mexican law prevails.O artigo demonstra como o pensamento iluminista europeu afetou o processo de codificação mexicano no século XIX, com consequências negativas ao reconhecimento da identidade indígena e seus direitos, que foi suprimida em benefício de uma identidade civil moderna que contrastava com a complexidade social e étnica existente. Nesse contexto, defende-se que a codificação e seu modo de pensar afastaram o jurista da realidade, passando a justificar uma igualdade entre desiguais através de fórmulas jurídicas que, hoje, necessitam ser questionadas e reformuladas, a fim de que um direito mexicano ontologicamente correto prevaleça.The article demonstrates how European enlightenment thinking affected the Mexican codification process in the 19th century, with negative consequences for the recognition of indigenous identity and its rights, which was suppressed for the benefit of a modern civil identity that contrasted with the social and ethnic complexity existing. In this context, it is argued that the codification and its way of thinking alienated the jurist from reality, justifying an equality between unequals through legal formulas that today need to be questioned and reformulated, so that an ontologically correct Mexican law prevails