Full Description:
An Ejido is an area of land held collectively by a community, used for agriculture, forestry, or housing. Unlike private property, this land could not originally be sold, ensuring it remained a permanent resource for the village. The revolution fought to reclaim these lands which had been illegally seized by hacienda owners.
Critical Perspective:
The fight for the ejido represents the clash between two opposing worldviews: the capitalist view of land as a commodity to be bought and sold for profit, and the indigenous/peasant view of land as a communal right and source of subsistence. The ultimate partial success of the ejido system was one of the most radical redistributions of wealth in Latin American history.
