In this film they inspire Mexican peasants to oust imperial French settlers.
Ejidos were created in the first half of the 20th century to give Mexican peasants rights over redistributed lands, but this did not include leasing or selling.
Today, most Mexican peasants are landowners.
In the movie, Muñiz played Blades' father, a Mexican peasant with a proclivity for setting billboards on fire as a protest.
We live," he continued, "on a level lower than the Mexican peasants, which is already saying a lot.
"Enganchadores" would persuade Mexican peasants to travel the rails in acceptance of American jobs.
On one level, the story functioned as an offbeat love triangle: a virgin spinster, an illiterate Mexican peasant and a cynical 70-year-old intellectual.
His only clothes are the cotton shirts, sandals and white pants of Mexican peasants.
Specifically, he is a poor-people person, as in Mexican and Brazilian peasants.
She is best remembered for playing ethnic dancing and singing roles, and was often cast as a gypsy or a Mexican peasant.