Where did the trees go ? They went to slash-n-burn. The replacement was cattle. Where did they go? Down the drain by 1986. All money was lost or stolen. No kickbacks were announced, and the Indians were blamed by WB for deforestations.
Many areas from Puebla to Panama have antieconomic agriculture chiefly due to low rainfall below 1000 mm/yr. However, Chiapas has about 2000 mm/yr going to 3000 in southern Panama. Still, agriculture can be replaced by education and urbanization, calling for a new life style.

In the Mexican rural tradition, the question of who owns the land--la tendencia de la tierra is crucial. When the NAFTA came in in 1994, what happened to families living in ejidos?