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Weekly Report - 19 April 2018 (WR-18-15)

MEXICO: New airport takes centre stage in campaign

Days before the first presidential debate takes place on 22 April, the frontrunner in the race, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has been drawn into a separate debate with a different protagonist. Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, normally wary about entering the political fray, expressed his conviction that discontinuing construction of Mexico’s new international airport (NAIM) would be a serious mistake. Slim did not mention names, but López Obrador stands alone among the presidential candidates in advocating scrapping the M$186bn (US$10.34bn) project. This quickly became the news story of the week in Mexico with López Obrador claiming that Slim had been put up to it by President Enrique Peña Nieto, who championed the project when he took office in 2012.

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