Article: ON PROPOSALS TO PRIVATIZE EJIDO LANDS

Debate over the controversial issue of ejido (communal farmlands) reform has been stepped up in the wake of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's promise to "modify" the status of ejidos. The ejido sector consists of 28,000 units covering 1.05 million sq.km.

The president is reportedly motivated to push ejidos as far as possible toward privatization as a means to cushion Mexican agriculture from the potentially devastating effects of the free trade agreement with the US and Canada. Specifically, reforms would make "the internal organization of ejidos more flexible" and would "allow free association between [ejido members] and the private sector in order to attract ...

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