Land Reform and Rural Mobilization in Veracruz (Mexico) during the Twentieth Century

Abstract

One of the social principles derived from the Mexican Revolution, was land reform. For seventy decades of the Twentieth century, rural mobilization of the peasantry revolved around land distribution against the various forces of reaction who resisted and developed repressive and political strategies to stop land distribu-tion. The state of Veracruz was the scenario of the peasant struggle for land and in his space also happened armed repression and murder against those who demanded a plot to work.