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The accents are all over the place, and the Mexican Spanish isn’t always accurate (the proper term for prison in Mexico is penitenciaria, for instance, not cárcel).—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The narration, wonderfully performed by Fernanda Echevarría del Rivero, captures the musicality of Mexican Spanish — as well as Kahlo’s irreverent personality.—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024 Jyohana’s accent as a Honduran is easily distinguishable from the Mexican Spanish spoken by locals.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021 Their language is also a European language (even if there are indigenous loan words, regional Mexican Spanish is intelligible with Castilian).—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2013
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