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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] 12 points 7 months ago

I really hope Square Enix does something like the FF7 Materia system or the FF8 junction system again, I mean outside of remakes. Having character progression have its own system that’s somewhat complex and independent of combat is a lot of fun. The fact that you didn’t need to get it to beat the games also adds a lot of replay value somehow. Like I think there is a whole generation of people that grew up and beat those when they were tweens, and when returning later for nostalgic reasons had a whole new system to explore.

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Before video games there were no problems in life and all children grew to be respectable adults.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

new why didn't rome reunify like china did video on the youtube

obviously, because there's a sea where the central plain should be

not-built-for-this actually talks about how inconvenient the european frontier is for steppe empires looking to exploit the mediterre not-built-for-this

low key dig the steppe argument because the steppe peoples were in fact the goats of premodern political organization, but still seems like the boat fuckers should be involved in the conversation about the unification of a water basin, they ain't as sexy as horse archers--we all know that--but those salty asses and their political organization were the lynchpin in medieterrean business and politics.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Here I go tryna pull my 5 year relationship out of its death spiral again pirate-jammin

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

:ELON

TRUMP

PUTIN'

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ELECTION INTERFERENCE

! illuminati !

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Reminder: never trust a statistic you didn't falsify yourself.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I left school quite some time ago, but I still think back to when I first learned < and >, that the mouth wants to eat the bigger number, and that's genuinely hhow I remember it. I'm not even bad at maths, I just cannot remember more than or less than without using the hungry mouth

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Used to be that we called an account with multiple users posting from it a "hydra" but I've only encountered them in forum mafia/werewolf games.

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Talks of Cuban (mark) 2028 on the dem ticket ahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

just consider us a failed species already. How are there not daily revolts about fucking billionaires existing

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

That trope about men saying they’re not political usually means their conservative and they just don’t want to say it in order to get laid kind of applies to me.

I say I’m not political because if I told the majority of women my pinko commie beliefs they’d never want to date me

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

you gotta hand it to our intrepid job creators for taking these lowly wizards in off the streets

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Not enough hivemind in this hivemind, I've singlehandedly made like 1/3 of the comments and posts

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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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The two genders

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Happy to report that this rash is probably not a precursor to my skin falling off.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

ate two bowls of onion soup my you-are-a-serf energy is restored

now to restore my proletarian spirit with spirits freedom-hater

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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 7 months ago

Holy shit tiktok is lib as fuck, no wonder i never use this shit app.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

learning to read japanese for an entire year so I can play riichi on tenhou instead of an anime girl platform and then getting obliterated because i'm bad at riici

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I'm not entirely sure how many are still on this account, but I think it's at least 3-4

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Calling it now. When prices are still high and it’s still an employers market, we’re going to see some dumb excuse like: “Post Democrat Stress Disorder” where even though the GOP will rule like it’s a one-party state, poor porky is just too scared and traumatized over Biden to actually make jobs…so he’s still trying to save up to hire people.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

it seems i've forgotten the key fact this morning

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I need to make ramen tomorrow for work and I really don't want to because i don't think i'm gonna make it so good

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Sorry to simultaneously thirst-post and go full great man theory, but I'm pretty confident that if we could show Bassem Youssef the light of communism then we'd achieve FALGSC within a couple decades.

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Been becoming more of a beer connoisseur. Realized Busch tastes exactly the same as corona and modelo

Also Im starting to like the taste of Earthquake malt liquor. It the cheapest beer with most alcohol (10%), but it actually doesn’t taste that bad? It actually has some flavor like a peanut butter taste. Natty Daddy also way better than Steel Reserve

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Some folks are completely unfamiliar with the concept of plausible deniability.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

> told by multiple people that Abstract and Discrete is a notable step-up in difficulty from my previous math classes
> do none of the homework
> set the upper bound of the curve on both exams

am I being trolled, like this isn’t hard at all for me it’s just a bit tedious tails-trolled

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