Mexican Agrarian Reform

The century-long arc of land redistribution and counter-reform in Mexico, from the 1910 Revolution through Cárdenas-era expropriations (1934–40), the gradual slowdown under successive PRI administrations, and the 1992 counter-reform under Salinas that formally ended land redistribution and opened ejido land to privatization. Agrarian reform is the structural context without which neither Mexican drug-trade history nor contemporary rural violence can be understood: the same communities, regions, and fault lines run through both.

This topic serves as a parent for more specific entries (ejido system, corn crisis, Article 27 reform, Zapatista uprising) and is the connective tissue between post-revolutionary political economy and the drug war.