Mexico City’s new airport is already about a third completed, but its future comes down to a public vote this week in a political high-wire act by the country’s president-elect that could shut down Mexico’s largest infrastructure project in recent memory.
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President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to let the people decide the fate of the $13 billion airport. Lopez Obrador had earlier said he would cancel it if elected, his victory being a referendum in itself.
Over four days beginning Thursday, citizens will cast ballots asking whether to continue with the new airport or update Mexico City’s existing one and another airport two hours away in Toluca, while building two new runways at a military base that would be converted to commercial use.
