Mexican president opens new -- and distant -- airport

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is inaugurating one of his hallmark building projects, a new Mexico City airport that reflects the contrasts and contradictions of his administration.

FILE - An aerial view of the new Felipe Angeles International Airport, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is inaugurating the new airport, one of his hallmark building projects on Monday, March 21, 2022.

“It is such an important project that our adversaries want to sling mud at it,” López Obrador said Thursday of the army-built terminal constructed at a military base. “There is a whole campaign refusing to recognize that was a very good decision.” The new airport will run in tandem with Mexico City's existing airport, whose two, saturated terminals had been scheduled for closure under the earlier plan.

So when his Maya Train tourist project ran into problems — engineers found they couldn't build an elevated stretch along the Caribbean coast because it would mean closing down the region's only highway — they simply began running the line through the low jungle. Most of the president's decisions on where and what to build appear to be highly personal. To justify them, he has held"referendums” for which only relatively small numbers of voters, mainly his supporters, turn out.

José Antonio López Meza, an engineering consultant who has visited the new terminal, says “it’s hard to get there and we know that. I’ve been there, and it’s a very long trip… It takes two hours from Polanco,” a neighborhood near the center.His administration changed the rules that usually require passengers to show up two hours before a domestic flight, and three hours before an international flight.

 

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