An essay claims that people from this country who create “Nobody, by denying Somebody's existence, are also changed into Nobody.” An author born in this country drew on her courtroom work for an “essay in 40 questions” titled Tell Me How It Ends. Poetry is interspersed with interviews conducted just after a massacre in this country in an Elena Poniatowska (“pone-yah-TOV-skah”) book. People from this country face life as orphans due to a woman’s (*) sexual “betrayal” according to an essay that examines uses of the verb chingar. That essay claims that people from this country hide behind “masks” and are “truly different… truly alone.” For 10 points, name this home country of Valeria Luiselli and an author who analyzed its psychology in The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz. ■END■
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos] (The first sentence is from The Labyrinth of Solitude.)
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