Ejidos are land that belongs to the people by right (Mexican History has a lot of difficult passages of peasants earning back their lands from Spaniards and rich people). Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary from 1910, had a saying that went something along the lines of: "Land belongs to he who works on it." After the Revolution, thousands of farmers gained access to their lands under the legal form of ejidos. Now, time passed, and in 1992 the law changed. Many farmers were not using their land, and by ejido law, they could not sell, lease, or mortgage it. So much land was going to waste! The Agrarian Law was created to allow the people who own any piece of land to sell it to people who are not ejidatarios. Now foreigners can own Mexican land. Nevertheless, it is highly advisable to hire a lawyer to help you sort out your way of ejidos and their law's legal intricacies.