Image 2Image 2: Ejido Tampico comparison between 2000 and 2006The Mexican government's conflict with the former Ejido Tampico dated back to 1970, when they expropriated 320 hectares of the Ejido Tampico to build a new runway and passenger terminal at the Tijuana airport and agreed to pay the displaced ejidatarios (the communal farmers) $1.4 million pesos ($112,000 U.S. dollars in 1970).