[FITZ]

Get used to the idea of ejidos. Land ownership in hispanic cultures does not exist as we know it.

[primeval patriot]

Get used to the idea of ejidos.

That's some sort of community properties?

[Regulator]

Hey, Fitz -- This is a good link to the history of land ownership and labor relationships in Spaniard America: Encomienda in America

This charming feudalism which led to the desperation of so many millions is the starting point in the disaster known as Latin America. The progression is like this:

Encomienda --> Repartimiento --> Debt Peonage --> Ejidos.

One long, disgusting line of human misery for 5 centuries capped off by the idiot Ejido system which is now impoverishing the ever-over-reproducing Campesinos.

Some one should do a TV show about this! Why, the ratings would be just ducky -- people's eyes would fall out at the horror show, and the border with ANY Latin country would be sealed for fear that the disease could spread. But of course, it already has, and like you say, soon we will have grimy jerks like Jose Angel Gutierrez grunting about "communal ownersheep of de lahnd por todos campesinos" or some such nonsense.