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Images Surface of Suspended Texcoco Airport Totally Flooded
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Once again, controversy has arisen over the half-finished Texcoco airport, which was canceled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) even before he took office in December 2018. On Friday, Oct. 8, Mexican Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development Román Meyer shared an aerial photograph on Twitter of the land where former
Read moreA Tale of Two Airports: NAIM and Santa Lucía
By RICARDO CASTILLO In tandem with the announcement on Monday, April 29, of the additional construction of the Santa Lucía military airport — now renamed the Felipe Ángeles Airport — just northwest of the Teotihuacán Pyramids, Communications and Transportation Secretary Javier Jiménez Espriú surreptitiously released to the handpicked newspaper El Universal as well as to journalist Jorge Zepeda, copies of
Read moreMexican Government to Investigate Missing NAIM Funds
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government will investigate allegations of the misappropriation of more than 17 billion pesos earmarked for the now-suspended construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Monday, Jan. 7, during his regular morning news conference at Palacio Nacional. AMLO said that he had reviewed the case
Read moreMexican Airport Project Back on…For Now…Maybe
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After ranting and raving throughout most of his campaign and the five months after his July 1 landslide leading up to his Dec. 1 inauguration, about the imperative need to cancel a half-built international airport on the lakebed of Texcoco, in the State of Mexico (Edoméx) to serve Mexico City’s over-extended Benito Juárez International Airport (not to mention holding
Read moreInvestors Panic, Bolsa Plunges and Peña Nieto Doesn’t Even Say Quack
By RICARDO CASTILLO Here’s the sequence of events that led to a market selloff at the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores) that provoked the loss of nearly 6 percentage points and nearly 90 billion pesos over the last week, mostly for banks. First, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, came the not-so-casual news from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party majority leader
Read morePolitical Tempest Calms as AMLO Negotiates with NAIM Contractors
By RICARDO CASTILLO Here in Mexico, we have witnessed a lot more than a tempest in a teapot as President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is claiming over the new airport debate. The cancellation of the construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) has unleashed the virulent “fifi” press against the future president of Mexico. It was, however, a
Read moreThe Mexican People Have Spoken, and They Said ‘No New Airport’
By RICARDO CASTILLO The behemoth New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) project was declared defunct on Monday, Oct. 29, by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) after the “no” vote triumphed overwhelmingly during the four-day (Oct. 25 through Oct. 28) national consultation poll carried out by the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party. The airport construction, at about 20 percent completion (32
Read moreThe Pros and Cons of Mexico City’s New Airport Proposal
By RICARDO CASTILLO The open referendum to approve or disapprove the no-binding construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) started on Thursday, Oct. 25, and will end on Sunday, Oct. 28. In case you’re not tuned into the situation, which is the nation’s largest and noisiest gossip topic nowadays, here are some of the pro and con opinions regarding the controversial
Read moreNew Mexico City Airport’s Fate Remains Up in the Air
By RICARDO CASTILLO Whether to continue construction of the New Mexico City International Airport (NAIM) at the Texcoco Lake basin or not — that will be the question asked in a “citizens’ consultation poll” to be carried between Thursday, Oct. 25 and Sunday, Oct. 28. The poll will be carried out across the nation’s 573 most-populated municipalities, at 1,076 polling booths. The esteemed Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation will
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