Three years after the start of construction and two days after the inauguration of the Felipe Ángeles Airport (AIFA), there have been more criticisms and questions than cheers and applause for the conclusion of this flagship work by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Several politicians, journalists and influencers have demonstrated against this project located in Santa Lucia, State of Mexico, both because of the location, the airlines that will work on it, and because the construction of the New International Airport of Mexico (NAIM) had to be canceled, which entailed a high cost.
Among the characters in the opposition is lawyer Diego Fernández de Cevallos, who, from social networks and media spaces, seeks to make various criticisms of the Fourth Transformation (Q4) for the way they handle the country.
During his section on the news broadcast by journalist José Cárdenas, the former presidential candidate for the National Action Party (PAN) exploded against the inauguration of AIFA on March 21.
“I hear the irony that you handle, the madness that is in the Palace, but good. The truth is that the fandango with which Felipe Ángeles airport was inaugurated is over, as you say, with grenaches and tlayudas. The fandango is over,” he said.
Later, he said that the two main purposes of the government were fulfilled: to give access to the “good people, who do not fly” to observe the president, whom he identified as “the smallest highness”, above the clouds. “It was his party (AMLO),” he said.
In addition, he noted that the inauguration worked to remember who is in charge in and over Mexico, although he did not name anyone. He also hopes that this airport will work, although he stressed that he will remain skeptical due to various irregularities in the facilities.
“We must doubt that this airport is profitable because again the government is lying to us when it says that Felipe Ángeles airport cost 75 billion pesos (...) but we must add the many millions spent on roads and the cancellation of Texcoco,” he said.
Fernández de Cevallos asked the government for explanations about whether it was not better to finish NAIM in Texcoco than to build new facilities, because, he said, it would meet the coverage of aeronautical demand for many years.
He also highlighted the impossibility ofa href="https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2022/03/24/mario-delgado-respondio-al-deseo-de-quadri-por-reconstruir-el-naim-vive-realidades-alternas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" using AIFA and AICM at the same time in the exits and entrances of aircraft, so that the saturation that it suffers from could not be mitigated Benito Juárez Airport, despite being the main mission of AIFA.
“The truth is that this government's vision was only enough to try to mitigate the saturation of an airport that was built 91 years ago. I ask: can anyone in good faith really believe that the enlargement made to Saint Lucia is what the capital of Mexico requires?” , questioned Fernández de Cevallos.
Finally, he celebrated the people who have applauded the role of the Mexican Army in the construction of AIFA, as they complied with the orders issued by their “supreme chief”; however, he mentioned that he would join those who insist on building a new airport.
“How Mexico needs it and how it deserves it. As today's Mexicans need it, and as the new generations undoubtedly demand it from now on,” Diego Fernández de Cevallos concluded during his appearance with José Cárdenas.
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