ABSTRACT
Inconsistencies in the enforcement of ejido land rights and uneven application of the constitutional agrarian code frequently create intracommunity and intra-familial fissions. In the meantime, they continued to absorb expenses related to the continuing problems with their father, and to their own difficulties in obtaining titles to their own plots of land because the division of land by Don Silvano Gonzalez required new titles, Titulos de Derechos Agrarios. The problem worsened significantly in 1977 when Don Silvano, then eighty years of age and without family assistance, became unable to work his land. The major differences between Miguel and Rafael are that the former saw his land as an investment which would provide security for other ventures in which he held greater interest. Rancheros with economic means, especially from the established mestizo families, are able to circumvent the Agrarian Laws and consolidate land resources to the disadvantage of minifundistas and the landless, regardless of their ejido rights.
