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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 21 August 2018
In brief: Mexico
* Javier Jiménez Espriú, named by Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador as his future transport & communications minister, has presented two alternative plans to build a new international airport for Mexico City (NAICM) to Mexico’s civil engineers’ association. Jiménez has given the body until 5 September to come up with an “objective” evaluation of which plan would represent the best option. The outgoing government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto has already begun building the NAICM and awarded a series of construction contracts for the US$13bn project. However, López Obrador has been critical of the project and has proposed cancelling it. The president-elect believes that the project does not represent value for money and has proposed expanding an existing military airport and turning it into a new public international airport instead. But the local private sector has expressed its support for the NAICM project, which has led López Obrador to announce that he will hold a public consultation on the matter before making a final decision. Commissioning an independent technical analysis of the two projects is part of the preliminary steps ahead of staging the public consultation.
