Abstract

FLORES LOPEZ, José Manuel. The Expansion of Cattle-Ranching in the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz: the Case of a Zoque-Popoluca Community. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2016, vol.37, n.148, pp.227-257. ISSN 2448-7554.

This article describes the process of the expansion of cattle-ranching that began in the early 1980s, affecting a small Zoque-Popoluca community in southern Veracruz state. The principle vehicles through which livestock-raising activity came to be implemented were sharecropping-like production agreements (a medias) and the leasing of pasturelands. This process of expanding livestock-raising had profound impacts as it transformed both local economic activities and the physical landscape. This was a regional process in which broad national initiatives like fomenting the spread of cattle production into the tropical zones of the country played an important role, together with settlement policies and agrarian reform.

Keywords : Sierra de Santa Marta; Zoque-Popoluca indigenous peoples; expansion of cattle-ranching; shared herds; leasing of pasturelands.

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