By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has not used the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — one of his controversial pet megaprojects — more than six months after its inauguration. In a review by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma of AIFA operations and presidential tours, on at least a dozen occasions, López Obrador has preferred to travel through
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) will take full control of immigration and customs tasks at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) “in an effort to combat organized crime,” the director of the AICM, Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, announced on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 4. In a press conference, Velázquez Tiscareño said that the Immigration Office at
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By MARK LORENZANA The presidential jet TP-01 José María Morelos y Pavón, which Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has tried to sell or raffle off for four years now, is still unsold. Adding to the problem is that the plane’s maintenance has also been halted, according to a report on Sunday, Oct. 2, by Mexican daily newspaper El
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By MARK LORENZANA The controversial Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — one of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet megaprojects — scaled down its projection of transporting 2.4 million passengers this year to 700,000, which is 71 percent less than its original goal. When the AIFA was inaugurated in March of this year, it projected transporting 2.4 million passengers
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez picked up his seventh podium finish this year as he finished second behind teammate and fellow Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen in another one-two finish for Red Bull on Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Belgian Grand Prix. It was a particularly impressive win for Verstappen, who had the
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By KELIN DILLON Just five months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the freshly constructed Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) as open for operations, the brand new air hub is already suffering from the same flight delays and operational issues currently plaguing its still-functioning predecessor, the Mexico City International Airport (AICM). The AIFA has been touted by
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE First, it was a piece of perforated paper, then the option existed to create the document on-line. For years, a standard 180 days were issued. But about a year ago, immigration officers in Mexico began to assign everything from 10 to 90 days for some. What are we talking about? Every foreign tourist in Mexico
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By MARK LORENZANA Section 6 of the controversial Tren Maya, which will run from Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to its capital city of Chetumal, will be the most destructive in environmental terms, and also the most expensive. The Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) for the 255-kilometer Section 6 of the Tren Maya — one of Mexican President
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The cost of the construction of the still-abandoned, still-almost-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), one of the pet megaprojects of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López (AMLO), has doubled since work began on it in 2020. Originally slated to cost 12.479 billion pesos, the train, which is intended to provide travelers with affordable access to the AIFA, increased
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a totally unveiled effort to force airlines to use his dysfunction and nearly-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which most international and even major national airlines have so far avoided for safety concerns, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Aug. 11, that he would limit the number of flights allowed to land and
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