sentences:  Within the party structure and the government, labor has had a continuous, formalized, visual corporate role, but with Velazquez's death in 1997, organized labor has fractured.Peasants were organized via the "Confederación Nacional Campesina" (CNC), or National Peasant Confederation, which Cárdenas saw as a force against landowners, but it became the vehicle for patron-client / state-campesino relationships.Whether the intention or not of Cárdenas, the CNC became a means to channel and control the peasantry.