By KELIN DILLON According to information derived from an investigation into millions of the Mexican Secretariat of Defense’s (Sedena) emails, which were leaked by hacktavist group Guacamaya to daily Mexican newspaper El Universal, the Sedena is working on plans to launch its own passenger and cargo airline under the umbrella of the secretariat’s recently created megaproject company, the Olmeca-Maya-Mexica Airport,
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XINHUA At least six soldiers were killed when a Mexican Air Force plane crashed on Sunday, Feb. 21, in the municipality of Emiliano Zapata, Veracruz, the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) reported. Sedena said in a brief statement that a LearJet 45 with the registration number 3912 crashed after taking off Sunday morning from El Lencero Airport. “The Secretariat’s Air Accidents
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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XINHUA The Mexican Army airlifted 15.2 tons of humanitarian aid to Honduras for those affected by Hurricanes Iota and Eta, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) reported Saturday, Dec. 12. In a statement, SRE said that a C-130 Hercules cargo plane from the Mexican Air Force had been responsible for taking the shipment of food and water to the Central
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Army Grooves to Music and Dance The Mexican Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) took a two-day-long recess to commemorate the 107th anniversary of its foundation on Feb. 19, 1913. The celebration began on the night of Tuesday, Feb. 18, with the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) Symphony and Choir delivered a spectacular concert, mostly for officers,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First of all, let me clarify the difference between the word “occurrence” in English and “ocurrencia” in Spanish: In theory, they could be interpreted as being the same, but as you will see, there are significant differences in meaning between the two words. The reason for this clarification is that, last week, I mistranslated the word “maestro”
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There can be no doubt that with the over 200 press conferences he’s held since being sworn in 10 months ago on Dec. 1, 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has shaken up the old and very rusty and corrupt system of journalism information availability in Mexico. The number of journalistic casualties is high. The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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