It had rights of confiscation and expropriation. Though the Mexican Constitution guaranteed compensation for expropriation or nationalization, nothing had yet been paid. The agrarian reforms included the illegal expropriation of large landowners. These included expropriation of hacienda lands and redistribution to peasants. He continued policies of colonisation of the land and expropriation of properties. Farmers feared it could cause their eviction and land expropriation. The DA is resolutely against land expropriation without compensation. The attempt failed because the law of expropriation still has constitutional status. The Soviets mandated expropriation and "etatisation" of private property. They responded with massive and coordinated expropriation of Austrian economic assets. Half of these seizures occurred on farms below the land limit of expropriation. The local government or non-profit organisations are now in charge of land expropriation and compensation. Economic nationalism played the key role in the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938. Monasteries and convents were targeted and expropriation of Church properties surged. However, this provision has no bearing on the matter of the expropriation itself.