On November 7, 1991, President Salinas de Gortari broke with the long-standing agrarian policy and announced the reform of Article 27 of the Constitution. With a stroke of a pen, Salinas declared the land reform initiated with the Revolution of 1910 over and laid the basis for dismantling Mexico's peculiar form of collective holding, the ejido. The reform of Article 27 culminated nearly a decade of gradual withdrawal of the state from direct participation in the agricultural economy.