Mexican Peasants Seize Land

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from a specinl correspondent More than 4,000 Mexican peasants seized the land on Pie de la Cuesta beach in Guerrero State, earlier this month, They followed this by the erection of tin shacks and straw huts on their newly-geined land. Mexican public opinion holds that although Mexico has carried out a form of land reform, the problems of the pessants' lack of land is not solved, oberto Aguirre, Director of the Dewrtnentof Agrarian Affairs and Immigration said recently thot there sre two million landless peasants in Mexico, The current Mexican land law stipulates that the maximum land that a private land owner onn posses is 100 hectares ( pprox 250 neres) of irrigeted fields. However, many big plantations have not turned over their excess land. A representative of the Venustiano Carranza village in Coahuila State revealed that Amory Whitehead, a big U.S. latifundist, owns 235,000 hectares of land in the vicinity of the U.S. borders