Every Move I Make
teaches me something new about this country where I now live and most likely will die. In June I moved to a small town on a pretty river, Las Juntas y Los Veranos. I have friends here and they introduced me to a couple from Washington who have a small, quirky hotel here on the Rio Horcones. These folks drive back to the northwest US in their big rv every June and return back in December. I don't know for sure why I thought living in a small hotel on a river by myself was the answer, but I did. And here I am. Lessons abound, but the one I am currently learning is about Ejidos. What is an Ejido? An ejido is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. Peasants awarded ejidos in the modern era farm them individually in parcels and collectively maintain communal holdings with government oversight. They also are allowed to de...