Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some still-smoking hovels and a group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses of a few poor peons because they want a little piece of land...
Such is the patriarchal quality of Lázaro Cárdenas' radicalism. He is no more a Marxian Socialist than was King Arthur or Robin Hood. He is a purely Mexican radical and has no particularly high opinion of Leon Trotsky to whom he has given haven...
...year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were paid in Mexican bonds which have steadily declined) totaled only 20,132,180 acres, about 1,200,000 acres per year. President Cárdenas, during the first three years of his term, gave...
...Peasants," into effect started out the 1934 campaign brochure of the National Revolutionary Party. No one took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank...
...doing for the peasantry which caused him last spring abruptly to pick the oil Apple in the Mexican Eden-i.e., confiscate the $400,000,000 oil properties when their owners, who had already yielded much to their Mexican workers, refused to make more concessions for which Lázaro Cárdenas fought (TIME, March...