Infrastructure was in disrepair, and a number of close calls were reported on the runways in recent years as the airport increasingly had trouble handling flights. The list of problems at Mexico City Airport has long included major drug shipments and illegal migration. Airport's 'deficiencies,' include drugs, organized crime It will soon have control of everything else, from customs and immigration to handling luggage and cleaning bathrooms, with the imminent publication of a presidential order to make that official.
The navy took charge of security at Mexico City International Airport, or Benito Juárez, more than a year ago. CBC News has reached out to the Canadian embassy in Mexico City for more information. More than 1.8 million Canadians travelled to Mexico in 2022, according to Statistics Canada. López Obrador says the old airport, the country's busiest, will be run by the navy. It is run by the military but little used. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been setting the armed forces to a wide range of nontraditional tasks since he was elected in 2018, creating concerns about the separation of the military from civilian life.Ī new airport was built by the army outside Mexico City a year ago at a cost of $4.1 billion US.
Mexico's armed forces are taking control of the capital's main airport, and the government plans to give the military control of nearly a dozen more across the country as the president takes aim at corruption and mismanagement.
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