By KELIN DILLON New reports from the controversial construction of Mexico’s new airport, which is newly under jurisdiction of the nation’s military, say workers on the project are allegedly being charged some 20 to 30 percent of their salaries to continue working there by their military superiors. The workers, many of whom come from the cancelled New Mexico International Airport
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By KELIN DILLON After much back and forth between Mexico’s Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) over the actual cost of the planned New Mexico International Airport’s (NAIM) cancellation, the ASF has confirmed that its initial report, which calculated that the project’s termination cost Mexico almost 332 billion pesos, was, in fact,
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By KELIN DILLON The construction of Mexico’s new Santa Lucia airport has already registered 54 accidents, including workers being run over by cars, crushed between pipes, and drilling holes in their hands, adding to the country’s bevy of flight-related problems. Mexico has already seen quite a bit of controversy over the redesign of Mexico City’s airspace to accommodate the Santa
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial new Santa Lucía airport will become Mexico’s main international airport, said Víctor Hernández, director of Services to the Navigation of the Mexican Air Space (Seneam), based on its larger capacity to expand than the current Mexico City International Airport (AICM). “The AICM over time is set to become the country’s second airport. The first I
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The point that Disraeli was trying to make is that the selective use of numbers can bolster any argument and disguise any truths to accommodate a political agenda. Nowhere is that persuasive power of carefully culled figures more
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Committees Approve Energy Bill Late Monday, March 1, the Mexican Senate’s Energy, Environment and Legislative Studies Committees approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric energy bill, which went to the Senate floor on Tuesday, March 2, for a fast-track vote. AMLO had asked Congress to approve the bill without even the slightest of changes, despite
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By KELIN DILLON Since taking office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been increasingly flexing his mounting power, showing anyone who dares to cross him that they will face his angry retribution, as he attempts to consolidate the government’s control over the nation. López Obrador has now come for the Superior Audit of the Federation
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) on Tuesday, Feb. 23, accused current Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca of committing a number of crimes, including collaborating with organized gangs and tax fraud, creating outrage among the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) opposition, and raising questions about just how far President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Morena will
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) backtracked on the numbers released in it’s 2019 public audit of the New Mexico International Airport’s (NAIM) cancellation, citing inconsistencies in methodology, alleging the real cost to be lower than previously reported. The ASF’s initial audit found the NAIM’s cancellation cost 331.9 billion pesos, 232 percent more than estimated by
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Superior Auditor of the Federation (ASF) calculated that the cancellation of the New Mexico International Airport (NAIM) back in 2018 cost the nation 331.9 billion pesos, almost three times its projected amount. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) government previously estimated the cancellation to cost 100 billion pesos, and touted the
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