ABSTRACT
While the record of Mexico's land reform is mixed, the restructuring contributed to the nation's stability for eight decades. And, for good or evil, it provided a blueprint for many of the Latin American agrarian reforms through the 1980s. Although the various countries enacting reforms would probably be unwilling to accept this provenance unchallenged, the asentamientos in Chile and the cooperatives of the first phase of El Salvador's reforms (occurring several decades after Chile began its reforms) were worked very much like the collective ejidos in Mexico; the parceled estates on the altiplano of Bolivia, in the Ecuadorean highlands, and in Colombia resembled the parceled ejidos. Even the stirring, propeasant rhetoric that resounded in Nicaragua in the late 1970s and early 1980s harkened back to Emiliano Zapata.
