ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how people of the municipality of Xochistlahuaca participated through organized peasant leagues in the post-Revolutionary process of land redistribution called agrarismo. Land reform did not come automaticlly as the fighting abated in the early 1920s. The plat that was drawn in the mid-1930s to delineate the affectable lands of the Lamm hacienda shows that the ejido lands actually granted to this community fell outside the seven kilometer limit, which could make their ejido legally contestable. The land redistribution process evolved gradually into a restrictive and lengthy process involving various steps for petitioning for land. As early as 1917, Rodrigo Ramos organized the Amuzgo and mestizo community of Huajintepec to submit a solicitation to the state government for an ejido land grant, the first such request in the entire Costa Chica area. Cozoyoapan had purchased their ancestral lands in the 1890s after providing legal documentation that they had been illegally dispossessed.
