In all the country’s local congresses, as well as in the federal chamber, the bill was symbolically presented this Tuesday to reform Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, which was amended during President Carlos Salinas’s six-year term, allowing for the privatization of land.
Héctor Severiano Ocegueda, a member of the National Indigenous, Peasant, and Social Assembly, explained that the goal is to restore the original spirit of the aforementioned article and thereby restore the rights of peasants.
They believe it is urgent to end the phenomenon of land privatization and for social property to once again become central to Mexico’s economic and social life, as it has long been.
Likewise, he commented that the ejido must once again be unseizable and imprescriptible, as was originally intended by the 1917 Constitution. This reform was amended during Salinas’s administration (1992), allowing for the expansion of private property and real estate development through the purchase of cheap land, especially in tourist areas, thereby fostering the dispossession of peasants.
The privatization phenomenon is occurring practically throughout the country, and Nayarit is no exception, given that land sales, especially in beach areas, have been wholesale.
Along with the amendment to Article 27, they also propose reorienting agrarian policy, not because it is not currently on the agenda of the Mexican government, but because this process must be deepened, generating the creation of an agricultural bank, as well as a national insurance company, and combating corruption.
Source: oem
