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The ejidos and agrarian communities are the form of land tenure that covers most of the surface in the Mexican countryside; these offer important agricultural and livestock production and most of the hills, forest areas, mangroves, coasts, water, mines and various natural attractions are in their lands

The ejido in Mexico

Mainly associated with the revolutionary agrarian reform, which projected the agrarian law of 1915 as collective, undivided land that could not be sold or inherited. Throughout the 20th century, its legislation underwent various changes, in accordance with the economic and political projects of the governments in power.

The key element to understanding the introduction of ejidos in Mexico as an integral part of the laws that followed the Mexican Revolution is the historical context in which the country found itself. Historian Emilio Kouri, in his article “The Invention of the Ejido”, speaks of the ejido as a social result of the Mexican armed struggle that was the revolution, but rather as a temporary response to the social demands of the revolution.

“That a revolution destroys what is unjust or does not work in order to try something new and different -with or without success- is the usual thing, and in the case of Mexico the agrarian reform of the Revolution invented the ejido. There should be no doubt that it is a modern invention, as will be seen below. The ejido was born as a provisional, almost accidental arrangement, but in less than two decades it was consolidated as the main instrument for governmental redistribution of land (...).

However, the ejido became a major piece in the policy of agrarian distribution in Mexico, more as a political tool to establish rural peace after the fall of Porfiriato than as an effective tool to fulfill the demands of the peasants; for the post-revolutionary war period, these aspects of communal restitution and indigenous property spaces provided by the creation of the ejidos resulted in a practical policy of control. In this regard, Kourí also mentions in his article the following:

“Thus, for both political and historical reasons, the solution to the agrarian problem at that time was clear: communal property was what the humblest people of the countryside (the Indians above all) understood best, what was most convenient to their present needs and, moreover, apparently, what the Zapatistas in arms on the other side of the Ajusco said they wanted(...).

January 6 marks a century since, in the midst of a great civil war, the Carrancista faction enacted an agrarian law in Veracruz that unintentionally marked the beginning and course of the most extensive agrarian reform in the modern history of Latin America. Throughout more than seven decades, the governments emanating from the Revolution gave way to an enormous transformation of the legal order and the social distribution of rural property in Mexico.

Pushed first by the demands and struggles of new peasant organizations and soon also by the irresistible attraction of its clientelist potential, the Revolution ended up distributing a lot of land, and not only bad land. Cardenismo (assisted by the Great Depression) broke up a good part of the large haciendas, demolishing without a second thought a long-lived economic and social institution that symbolized not only the consolidation of territorial property and local power since the mid-19th century, but also the legacy of conquests, subjections and viceregal depredations.

By 1991, when the Constitution was amended to put an end to the repartition, more than two-thirds of Mexico's land and forests had been subject to agrarian reform. There is much to debate about the costs and benefits, the vices and virtues, or the aspirations and failures of the Revolution's land distribution, but in any case, what is certain is that the magnitude of that institutional change in land ownership is comparable only to that which occurred as a result of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century.

El ejido, símbolo de la Revolución Mexicana*

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Hello comrades have some important information that I have not personally confirmed (CW: EXTREMELY misogynistic tweet) (but definitely worth opening if you are from Chicago)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The correct pluralization of Spider-Man is Spiders-Man.

Kinda like how the plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General.

This is now and forever law. If any of you have a problem with this, I am willing to settle it in 1-on-1 combat.

That is all.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

listening to once-vaguely-lib normie coworkers talk about how they love watching Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro OWN libs when they pop up in their Tikslop algorithm

the-deserter

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

there is a copy pasta at the main page under hexbear logo and it goes something like "thanks god cheeto man is not president anymore". mods, please fix

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

An old woman just came into my workplace earlier with her Chihuaua looking panicked and demanding that we call the police. I think she was having an episode because we actually drove her back home and called her daughter so that she felt safe to go inside. She thought people were trying to tear her door down and steal her dog.

The dog also ended up eating a huge chunk of a cookie someone left on the floor and would snarl anytime somebody tried to get it out of its mouth. Hope the little guy didn’t choke to death on it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

w8 whty are people so in their feelings about the tank comms being closed, we still have the megathread and badposting. i literally just posted about bidets and did a stupid Soy Machine for Pigs bit, rlly doesn't feel like we're suddenly the serious bizness site no slop allowed

beanis crushposting IBS doodooass pee pee poo poo see im still allowed to say these things i havent been banned for not doing Enough Theory

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

beanis crushposting IBS doodooass pee pee poo poo

What if they banned you for this

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

eating disorderFind myself eating far too much snacks like chips ad crackers. I'll buy a bag and then get to my apartment and eat the whole thing in like @0 minutes. Like I'm not even hungry and I'll still scarf it down. Don't know how the hell I stop binge eating

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

it seems i've forgotten the key fact this morning

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

as a young child, i grew accustomed to the fact that teeth were temporary and grew back after a while. But as an adult woman, it's been many many years since I've lost any teeth, and that fact has put me on edge. Why have my teeth not fallen out and been replaced yet?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Doing a BG3 playthrough as a Githyanki cause I thought it'd give some interesting interactions but all the Githyanki-specific dialogue options so far have just been militaristic assholery kitty-birthday-sad

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Evergreen reminder that the block button is the most useful feature on this website

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Stupid petit bourgeois cat, we're gonna proletarianise you

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I just started Vice (2018), I want to see some prime S-tier ghouls at work!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Y'all laugh at Klanada for their stupid half english half french ~~colony~~ "country", but they get to have two 9/11 (September and November) per year

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I wonder which one hit wonder 90s band is gonna play at the inauguration this year. What are "3 doors down" up to these days?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BRICS doesn't work as an acronym with all the new members. They should change it to CRIBS

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How long does the honeymoon with the 2nd trump admin last. Does he even make it to inauguration before his approval rating craters

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I have finally played the pokemon TCG for the first time, like 20 years after I first opened a pack of those cards. played a bunch on the gatcha pocket TCG app, and ngl it's pretty fun. god damn why did nobody explain to me as a kid how the fuck to play this thing? the rules in the booster boxes were dogshit, this stuff is basically magic but streamlined. not put any money into the app and opened like 20 packs off free shit alone, but damn I know if I break that 'don't spend money on a fremium game, dumbass' rule, I could absolutely see myself shilling a lot. dopamine go brrrr when I see a rainbow shiny mewtwo EX I just pulled

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

made a terrible mistake last night at 10pm – took the full adult dose of some 12-hr cough meds, having somehow forgotten that I'm a half-dose kinda lady in the few weeks since having covid

it was a bad time. DXM and I aren't friends.

still feeling Very Fucking Weird, but my Adderall seems to be helping (my head now feels tenuously attached to my body instead of floating a few feet above it). just a few more hours to go.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

MUSK IS A DEMOCRAT ELECTRIC CAR LOVING SLEEPER AGENT THAT HAS REPLACED TRUMP WITH AN IMPOSTER THATS WHY TRUMP IS QUIET NOW.

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