LatinNews Daily - 18 March 2025

*The inauguration of the new Jorge Chávez international airport serving Peru’s capital Lima has been pushed back for a third time. Transport & Communications Minister Raúl Pérez Reyes announced yesterday that the airport will not open as scheduled on 30 March due to construction delays. Pérez was cited in the official daily, El Peruano, as saying that “we’re not going to irresponsibly go ahead and inaugurate a project that could put people at risk”. He added that the government will not provide a new inauguration date because previous commitments by the multinational operating consortium Lima Airport Partners (LAP) “were not upheld at all”. Peru’s regulator for public transport infrastructure (Ositran) inspected the site on 14 March and announced yesterday that the new airport is 99.5% complete.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 128 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

• Subscribe
• Sign up for a one-time, 14-day trial