‘Agrarian mafia’: Communal farms steadily give way to big business
The authors of a report on the disappearance of communal lands in Yucatán liken tactics used by large business interests to those of the mafia. Over 500,000 hectares of hejido lands in the Yucatán Peninsula have been privatized since 1992. The privatization of communal lands known as ejidos is entirely legal. But concern is growing…
