You have the general sense of it there, in that translation ... ejido is the name of the organisation, ejidatario is the term for each tenure holder, almost always the head of household, who has the right to vote in asamblea, actually the duty as well, to attend and vote in asamblea
They don't have the same land per household in the new place, twelve hundreds metres squared versus fifteen thousands ... so how do they keep the same chickens and other livestock, fruit trees etc ... it's a change of lifestyle, culture ... densification does not work for the campesino, well only on small scale where his milpa is nearby, ten minutes walking, no more, this is the situation in our village, solares ['lots'] are fifty metres by fifty, each original ejidatario has one to ten or so hectareas within few minutes walk
A deal was made in nov06? ... then a deal is a deal is a deal, if it was fair, and fairly and transparently made ... we consider ourselves bound by the Peace of Westphalia even though the people who made it have long since been dead, that's how things work
At the same time, it's useful to remember that you're in somebody else's country, and in this case a country where slavers stole half the land a very few generations ago, forming a good part of the base of national psyche, and through that, its law ... check out the Ley Agraria for background, as of the last time i looked there was no good up-to-date english web page on the revised ley, wikipedia way behind on this one, but somewhere there was a decent page on the history and state of it as of about 1990, close enough to give the general idea
Cost of house construction - we have just finished off a fairly standard to upscale house in our village, total cost ninety thousands pesos or so ... ten grand canuck, exclusive of land which was bought years before ... we have a master builder in the family, something of an advantage, at the same time he does not work for nothing, doesn't cut corners on quality either ... floor area about one hundred thirty metres squared, not including palapa for kitchen [down south we cook outdoors only, you do not want heat in your house, which is built to keep heat out] |
