As Mexico Sinks Deeper, AMLO Turns Spotlight on Presidential Jet

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As Mexico sinks into recession amid a widening Covid-19 outbreak, its leader began the week by changing the subject to the pampered excesses of his rivals, displaying — yet again — his predecessor’s lavish presidential plane that he refuses to use and is trying to sell.

 

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist populist who holds forth to the media every morning at 7 a.m., moved his Monday news conference to a hangar at Mexico City’s international airport where reporters were taken into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner complete with king-size bed and conference room. It was brought back last week from California where it’s been parked for more than a year.

 

Fecha: 27-jul.-20

Autor: Michael O’Boyle y Lorena Rios

Medio: Bloomberg

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-27/as-mexico-sinks-deeper-amlo-turns-spotlight-on-presidential-jet?sref=EROITBzT

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