Agrarian Reform In Mexico
Agrarian Reform In Contemporary Mexico
The key question, "How has globalization and modernization reshaped the nature of agrarian struggle in contemporary Mexico?" is difficult to answer, because the answer is both that it has changed it a lot, and that it hasn't changed it at all.
For instance, when agrarian revolt began, Emiliano Zapata was at the forefront of the revolt. His revolt was for a just distribution of land, and it was an armed movement that finally obliged the government to respect peasants' rights to the land. But that activity was far from Chiapas, and far from involving all Mexico as the current struggle does. And, while the current struggle has gained what looks ...
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the rest of the country. In fact, Zapata was probably more famous abroad than at home.
At that time, also, there were a number of well-known leaders in the agrarian reform movement, including Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Villa and Alvaro Obregon. Although they carried out rebellious activities, neither Madero nor Carranza were true revolutionaries because they lacked the larger vision of Zapata and even Villa and Obregon, two who actually were able to enact some reforms. Obregon's administration enacted agrarian, labor and educational reforms. Villa had in mind a complex of colonies to provide a pool of workers, but of course it didn't come to pass.
Zapata was not only a representative of the people who wanted agrarian reform; he was one of them. He was born into a social position a little bit above the lowly peon. When he had attempted to recover lands taken from his village by a rancher, he was conscripted into the army in punishment. His plan, the ...
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led not by indigenous people, primarily, but by those who have not had to live rough on hardscrabble baked earth someone was trying to take from them. It is being led by much better educated people-especially Marcos-who have a grand idea that agrarian reform is only part of what is needed in Mexico. And, although the problem continues to be the unequal distribution of land, it can also be seen-especially in a global economy-as an unequal distributing of everything. But Mexico has more land than anything else, and is more rural than urban, so land is the place, still, to begin, and the place the modern movement, like he older one, did begin.
Like the older struggle, this one has ...
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