<P> President Lázaro Cárdenas passed the 1934 Agrarian Code and accelerated the pace of land reform . He helped redistribute 45,000,000 acres ( 180,000 km ) of land , 4,000,000 acres ( 16,000 km ) of which were expropriated from American owned agricultural property . This caused conflict between Mexico and the United States . Cárdenas employed tactics of noncompliance and deception to gain leverage in this international dispute . </P>
<P> President Lázaro Cárdenas passed the 1934 Agrarian Code and accelerated the pace of land reform . He helped redistribute 45,000,000 acres ( 180,000 km ) of land , 4,000,000 acres ( 16,000 km ) of which were expropriated from American owned agricultural property . This caused conflict between Mexico and the United States . Cárdenas employed tactics of noncompliance and deception to gain leverage in this international dispute . </P>
who was the mexican president who distributed land to the peasants in the 1930s
who was the mexican president who distributed land to the peasants in the 1930s
President Lázaro Cárdenas
President Lázaro Cárdenas