Mexican Agrarian Reform

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Mexico was destined for a revolution sooner or later with the tensions growing in the country. The Porfirato regime was being challenged after decades of ruling Mexico. The economy was growing in Mexico, but the people who benefitted were foreign companies and government officials. The majority people in Mexico who were farmers or peasants felt betrayed by their own government. The issue in 1910 for the Mexican people is who would succeed the current “President” Porfirio Diaz. It was a political problem that needed to be solved and nothing else at that time. It was Francisco Madero who would start to challenge and denounce the Diaz regime in 1910. His Plan of San Luis Potosi claimed, “denouncing the recent presidential, congressional, and …show more content…
Mexicans did achieve land reforms, but the problem is that Mexican presidents from Carranza to Calles Maximato didn’t exercise as much. For example, during Obregon’s presidency he created an agrarian reform in 1922 (Gonzales, 190). The reform would give some land to famers, but so little. The agrarian reform focus to keep the large estates in tact because those are the ones that generates money, while giving to individual farmers is a risky investment. The distribution of land was mostly given to people in Morelos as a way satisfy the people. It was done as a political move by Obregon because he wanted to create allies rather help the people by giving out land that was promised in the constitution. While Obregon’s approach toward the petroleum industry was vastly different. His approach was based on benefitting the Mexican government in the form of taxes. The petroleum industry was making profits for themselves and the Mexican government didn’t receive anything from them. Obregon placed an ad valorem tax of 10% on oil companies to pay off the foreign debt (Gonzales, 196). This was a positive step toward a new Mexico since Obregon showed authority to foreign companies. It only led to tensions between the Mexican government and American oil companies. The American companies were complaining about the taxes and Article 27. It led to the creation of the Bucareli Accords, which was a compromise between the Mexican and US government on Article 27. The compromise allowed American oil companies to have sub soil rights of the land prior to the Constitution of 1917. In exchange the Mexican government were allowed to enforce regulation on oil companies and tax the as well. This transformation brought some legitimacy in the Mexican government because before the oil companies were allowed to do anything without any consequences. This was an achievement for Obregon and Mexico that would later
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