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Baitenmann, Helga
Matters of Justice, 05/2020Book Chapter
Two of the many legends about the Porfiriato are seemingly contradictory: some critics of the regime decried that pueblo representatives lost their ability to take their land and water claims to court, while others argued that pueblos that took their claims to court usually lost because judges were corrupt and biased in favor of landowners. This chapter shows that although many pueblos (as civil corporations) did lose their right to own land with the Liberal reforms of the 1850s and the Constitution of 1857, and, on this basis, judges sometimes denied pueblos juridical standing (the right to take their claims
