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A key influence on agrarian land reform in revolutionary Mexico was of Andrés Molina Enríquez, who is considered the intellectual father of Article 27 of the 1917 Constitution. His 1909 book, Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales (The Great National Problems) laid out his analysis of Mexico's unequal land tenure system and his vision of land ...
Article 3 established the basis for free, mandatory, and secular education; [7] [8] Article 27 laid the foundation for land reform in Mexico; [8] and Article 123 was designed to empower the labor sector, which had emerged in the late nineteenth century and which supported the winning faction of the Mexican Revolution. [8]
[2] [3] He is considered the intellectual father of the land reform movement in modern Mexico embodied in Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917, and for reasserting the principle of national sovereignty with regard to ownership of land and resources on a liberal positivist basis. [4] [5] [6] He has been called "the Rousseau of the Mexican ...
Zapata's Plan of Ayala influenced Article 27 of the progressive 1917 Constitution of Mexico that codified an agrarian reform program. [77] Even though the Mexican Revolution did restore some land that had been taken under Díaz, the land reform on the scale imagined by Zapata was never enacted. [27]
Many of these farmers had to work for the large landowners for low wages and did not own land to grow food to feed themselves or their families. [5] This led to frustration in rural parts of Mexico. [5] Land reform was one of the main issues that led to the Mexican Revolution. [5] It also heavily influenced Zapata’s ideas in the Plan of Ayala ...
Obregón and Calles both distributed land under the tenets of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, allowing the Mexican state to expropriate property. Calles distributed 3,045,802 hectares to over 300,000 people living in rural areas, many of them indigenous. Much of this land was ill-suited for agriculture or even barren.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's ruling bloc appeared to secure the necessary votes to pass a judicial reform bill on Tuesday evening after an opposition senator dramatically broke party ranks to ...
Carlos Salinas de Gortari became Mexico's president in 1988 [4] and drove changes to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution that ended the redistribution of land to ejidos and enabled the large-scale transfer of rural, indigenous community land to transfer to multinational food corporations. [5]