This article by Emir Olivares Alonso originally appeared in the March 29, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. To date, the federal government has delivered nearly 30,000 land titles to women who own and work the land, reported Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
The goal for his six-year term in this “reclaiming” of women ejido members and communal landowners is to achieve 150,000 property titles for them.
This afternoon, the president led the delivery of agrarian certificates to women in the rural and conservation land area of the Tlalpan borough, south of Mexico City.
From Las Maravillas Topilejo Park, she emphasized: “One of the rights that seemed most difficult (to guarantee) is the right to property. It seemed as if women didn’t have the right to own a home; and in terms of agrarian rights, it seemed as if women didn’t have the right to be ejido members or communal landowners.”
In response, the head of the federal government retorted: “Who said that? Where is it written? It’s not written anywhere. Imagine, even work was already being done that way. Women were asking each other: ‘Can I be an ejido member? Can I be a communal landholder?’ Of course we can be ejido members and communal landholders, have agrarian rights. And that is what we are reclaiming with you today.”
Accompanied by the head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, the mayor of Tlalpan, Gabriela Osorio, and officials from the federal administrations (such as the secretaries of Women, Citlalli Hernández; of Agrarian and Territorial Development, Edna Vega; and of the Environment, Alicia Bárcena) and local administrations, the president stated that this delivery also vindicates the Indigenous peoples, conservation land and the women who work in the countryside.
Accompanied by the head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, the mayor of Tlalpan, Gabriela Osorio, and officials from the federal administrations (such as the secretaries of Women, Citlalli Hernández; of Agrarian and Territorial Development, Edna Vega; and of the Environment, Alicia Bárcena) and local administrations, the president stated that this delivery also vindicates the indigenous peoples, the conservation land and the women who work in the countryside.
“And we are advocating for the rights of women in particular, the agrarian rights of Mexican women,” she emphasized.
From this borough where she lived for 30 years and served as mayor, Sheinbaum Pardo maintained that despite the pressure of urban sprawl in the megalopolis, the conservation land of the nation’s capital refuses to disappear. This is thanks to the ejidos (communal lands) and agrarian and indigenous communities of the city.
“The pressure from urban sprawl is tremendous, but here the forest is cared for, and corn, vegetables, and flowers are still being planted,” she pointed out to dozens of people who gathered in the space, although the expected number was not reached, so before the start of the event, government personnel had to collect dozens of chairs —practically half— that had been set up waiting for the President.
One of the farmers who benefited from this certificate delivery, María Enriqueta Carrón Yescas, recalled her own story: “For me this moment has a very special meaning, I am an ejido member thanks to my father, who bequeathed to me not only the land, but also the love and commitment to the countryside.”
“I started this journey more than 20 years ago, a journey that hasn’t been easy. When I began, most of the ejido members were men, and it wasn’t well-received for a woman to enter their ejido. Making my way in required effort, consistency, and a lot of determination. Little by little, with work and perseverance, I built my place.”
Today she chairs the oversight committee of the Cuautepec ejido, in the Gustavo A. Madero district of the nation’s capital, and said she represents dozens of ejido and community women who have fought to be heard and recognized.
For her part, Brugada recalled that land redistribution was one of the achievements of the Mexican Revolution, based on General Emiliano Zapata’s ideal that “the land belongs to those who work it.” This principle was enshrined in Article 27 of the 1917 Constitution and implemented during the administration of General Lázaro Cárdenas through agrarian reform.
However, the mayor noted, land ownership has primarily fallen to men, relegating women to a secondary role. She stated that in the mid-20th century, only 5 percent of land was registered in women’s names, and by the end of that century, that number had fallen to a mere 20 to 25 percent.
In Mexico City, she added, 35 percent of conservation land is currently owned by women.
“It’s commendable, but there’s still much more to be done. That’s the great contradiction of our history: women produce, care for, and sustain the land, yet they weren’t recognized as its owners. For centuries, the land bore a woman’s name, but a man’s signature. And yet, women didn’t leave. For centuries, they have been sowers of life, guardians of the territory, the water, the forest, and the cornfields.”
The head of government pointed out that under the government of the country’s first female president and the second of the 4T, the right of that sector to own their land is being vindicated today.
“Today is the time for women. And the peasant women who have remained silently caring for the land are now being named, and today they own the land. It is time to recognize that without peasant women there is no countryside, no community, and no life. Today we say it with conviction and justice: without women there is no land, without women there is no country; the land also belongs to women.”
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