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Voters reject new Mexico City airport in favor of alternative options

The president-elect’s honeymoon with Mexico’s private sector may be over before it has even properly started!  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that he will respect voters’ decision taken in last weekend’s referendum to scrap the partially-built US$13 billion new Mexico City airport in favor of upgrading the capital’s existing facility and transforming the Santa Lucia military airfield into a commercial operation.

T-MEC to replace TLCAN?

The public’s favored acronym to replace TLCAN (the Mexican equivalent of NAFTA) is T-MEC, short for Tratado Mexico-Estados Unidos-Canada, according to a recent survey carried out on behalf of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Census of the needy begins

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is getting a head-start on the launch of sweeping social assistance programs with a nationwide census of needy Mexican families.