Tierras en la cuenca de Zacapu: del siglo xvi a la reforma agraria

In the years 1895-1907 a capitalist company drained the 12 000 has of Zacapu ponds and marshes. This affected the way of life of the five indian communities that made a living in a very old adaptation to the ecology. These communities resulted marginalized by the progress as the plantation disappeared the waters (plants, fishes, birds) and introduced railway, machines, technology, salaries, share-cropping and small private property for the colonist. Their fate seemed sealed. Then came the mexican revolution and gave them opportunity for unthinkable restauration. A radical minority of young men, half their way between tradition and progress, found its way to destroy the plantation and inheritate its land. Their political victory meant inmediate collapse of production and ruin of water control. Ultimately the Mexican State had to enter as a partner, as agricultural entrepreneur, in order to do, more or less, what the Noriega Co. had been achieving