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New airport gets mixed reviews

President Andres Manuel López Obrador celebrated a high point in his six-year term this week as he opened Mexico City’s second airport, Felipe Ángeles International, accompanied by hundreds of his supporters and scores of dignitaries.


Mexico’s first independent governor takes a fall

“It took us four years and four months, but we finally did it,” tweeted Samuel García, the Movimiento Cuidadano governor of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, celebrating the arrest of his predecessor,  Jaime Helidoro Rodríguez, “El Bronco,” on Tuesday, March 15.

Covid risk: Green for go!

For the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic in February 2020, all 32 of Mexico’s states are in the green (low risk) category in the federal government’s epidemiological traffic-light monitoring system. 

Is Mexico City’s second airport ready for prime time?

On Monday, March 21, as the nation takes the day off to mark the birthday of Benito Juarez, universally considered Mexico’s most influential president, current incumbent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and a slew of dignitaries will head over to Mexico City’s new $US4 billion airport, Felipe Ángeles International (AIFA), for its official inauguration.