How AMLO's Airport Decision Signals a Return to Mexico's Past
How AMLO's Airport Decision Signals a Return to Mexico's Past
The end of Mexico City's airport project reveals much about how AMLO will govern, writes the chairman of Mexico's Council on Foreign Relations.
Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador likes to frame his coming presidency as the start of a new era in Mexican politics. He also wants to re-establish the role of the presidency as the centerpiece of power. That was part of his justification for holding a $13 billion airport project already underway outside Mexico City up to a public vote in October.
But the informal and legally dubious way that vote was conducted – and López Obrador’s subsequent decision to cancel the project anyway – shows what his goals are and how much of an old-establishment politician he...
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