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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 16 October 2018
In brief: Mexico
* Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, a spokesman for Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has unveiled the question that the López Obrador administration plans to put to a public consultation on the building of a new international airport to service Mexico City. The outgoing Enrique Peña Nieto government has already started building a completely new airport (NAICM) in the Texcoco area of the Estado de México. But López Obrador has repeatedly said that he does not consider the US$13.3bn NAICM project to represent value for money and has proposed abandoning it. Instead, López Obrador proposes expanding the existing Santa Lucía military airbase, and turning it into a new civil airport. However, in the face of private sector support for the NAICM project, López Obrador has pledged to stage a public consultation on the matter by the end of the month. Ramírez has now revealed that the public will be asked: “Given the saturation of the Mexico City airport, what option do you think would be best for the country? 1. Recondition the Mexico City airport and the one in Toluca, and build two new runways at the Santa Lucía airbase. 2. Continue building the new airport in Texcoco and stop using the Mexico City International Airport”.
