... Cherán Michoacán narcotrafficking neoliberalism tragedy of the commons ...

.... In Chihuahua, Mexican corporations such as Bosques de Chihuahua received concessions that displaced the incipient projects of village-managed forestry in Rarámuri communities. In Michoacán, a state-wide logging ban and the eruption of the Paricutín volcano in 1943—along with extension efforts by the Ejidal...

... peoples. In Michoacán, timber barons such as Santiago Slade gained access to woods owned by native Purépecha people (a.k.a. Tarascans) by signing long-term lease agreements that effectively dispossessed the land. In Chihuahua, large American-owned corporations such as the Madera Company received multi...

... that it was not the collapse of state forestry, but rather the generations of social forestry that allowed rural communities to avoid a tragedy of the commons and begin using the forests for their own benefit, a dynamic exemplified by the community of Cherán, Michoacán. Cherán Michoacán narcotrafficking neoliberalism...

... corporations ( paraestatales ) were created in Michoacán (PROFORMICH), Chihuahua (PROFORTARH), and elsewhere to purchase timber from rural communities and provide technical assistance, but these artifacts state forestry soon became mired in bureaucracy and corruption, not to mention problems deriving from...