DOCUMENTAL: México Plural. Nahuas de Veracruz.

The series México Plural was produced by the SEP (Spanish Ministry of Public Education) and the now-defunct Educational and Cultural Television Unit during the 1980s. The Nahuatl of Veracruz are located in 14 municipalities in the northern Huasteca region; 20 in the central Orizaba-Córdoba region; and five municipalities in the southern Isthmus-Coatzacoalcos region. The municipalities with the largest number of Nahuatl speakers are: Chicontepec, Ixhuatlán de Madero, and Benito Juárez in the Huasteca region, as well as Tehuipango, Soledad Atzompa, Zongolica, and Mecayapan. In this territory, since before the arrival of the Nahuatl Aztecs, there were Tepehuas, Otomis, Totonacs, Huastecs, and Nahuatl Toltecs; In pre-Hispanic times, it was known, according to Byam Davis, as Xiuhcoac, meaning "turquoise serpent." Political conflicts led to the invasion of Nahua Toltecs before the emergence of the Triple Alliance. Subsequent migration and colonization led to the founding of various settlements. The province of Zicoac remained independent from the so-called Aztec Empire, which attempted to conquer it several times. Beginning in 1978, a migratory movement began that culminated in 1981. This migration was prompted by the exploitation of an oil field in the Chicontepec paleodelta. The migrants were workers from Pemex, the Ministry of Health, and the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), which, among others, provided the area with a health service network. These migratory movements changed some of the population's habits.