<P> President Lázaro Cárdenas passed the 1934 Agrarian Code and accelerated the pace of land reform . He helped redistribute 45,000,000 acres ( 180,000 km ) of land , 4,000,000 acres ( 16,000 km ) of which were expropriated from American owned agricultural property . This caused conflict between Mexico and the United States . Cárdenas employed tactics of noncompliance and deception to gain leverage in this international dispute . </P>
who was the mexican president who distributed land to the peasants in the 1930s
President Lázaro Cárdenas