Word: tlaxcala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expropriated land, which they can transfer to their children but cannot sell or mortgage to obtain desperately needed bank loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters. Díaz Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify the ejido system. But he did promise loans to farmers for livestock, fertilizer and more farm implements...
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