The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, inaugurates this Monday the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), one of his flagship infrastructure projects for the Mexico City metropolitan area.
The AIFA is controversial because it replaces the New Mexico International Airport (NAIM) since 2018, a modern work of Enrique Peña Nieto’s six-year term (2012-2018) which in turn aroused criticism for being built on Lake Texcoco and with contracts questioned by alleged corruption.
Before even assuming the Presidency, López Obrador held a consultation in October 2018 in which only 1.1 million voters participated, 1.23% of the electoral roll at the time, who decided in a proportion of 70% to cancel the NAIM , a work of 13,300 million dollars with 30% progress.
The then president-elect revived his old proposal to build the new airport at the Santa Lucía military air base, in Zumpango, State of Mexico.
-With information from EFE.
