Land that had formerly grown sugar was now converted to growing henequen, and employed the Korean farmers as cutters.
32.
It is also claimed that the descendants of early henequen plantation laborers alone might number as many as thirty thousand.
33.
Here, the Koreans were separated and taken to 32 different henequen haciendas to work for the next 4 years.
34.
Most thus settled in Mexico, either continuing to work on henequen plantations or moving to various cities in the country.
35.
During the henequen boom, the property was owned by Enrique and El�as Espinosa who issued hacienda tokens to their workers.
36.
The hub of Katanchel is the entirely civilized Casa de Maquinas, the former machine house where the henequen plants were processed.
37.
The Tahdzibich�n estate was founded in 1873 as a henequen plantation and operated as a sisal production farm until the last decade.
38.
All of the henequen plantations ceased to exist as autonomous communities with the agrarian land reform implemented by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1937.
39.
The sugar and henequen plantations encroached on native communal land, and native workers recruited to work on the plantations were mistreated and underpaid.
40.
Mexico produces two crops not generally produced elsewhere, henequen used to produce a strong fiber and maguey, both in the agave family.
