translated from Spanish: “There was corruption in the NAIM” insulated the

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied for the second time this week a member of his Cabinet. Yesterday, the Secretary of communications and transport, Javier Jiménez Espriú, said that corruption there was no in the construction of the new airport of the city of Mexico (NAIM), but Lopez Obrador said this morning: “If there was corruption”.
Jimenez Espriu told Senators that for the cancellation of the NAIM was taken as consideration a probable fact of corruption or misuse of resources.
The work, argued, was cancelled due to technical issues, by the excessive economic and environmental cost.
Lee: Cancellation of the NAIM in Texcoco won’t cost more than 100 thousand pesos: Jimenez Espriu however, Lopez Obrador said there was corruption because deceived the people with an opinion, making believe that it could not operate at the same time the airport of the city of Mexico and the ae ropuerto of Saint Lucia.
He stressed that they would be closing two airports to build of Texcoco, and current was going to urbanize and was going to turn into a sort of Santa Fe. “Was a business for a few.”
Lee: what will happen with the advance of the NAIM in Texcoco? What will be used the terrain?
In addition, Lopez Obrador explained that the estimated cost for the new airport “with two tracks nothing more and close two airports,” would require 300 billion pesos, which in the end would rise to double.
“It’s corruption because interests decided to build the Texcoco airport in the worst site of the Valley of Mexico, where are produced more collapses, where the quality of the work is not guaranteed,” he added.
Just this Wednesday, Lopez Obrador said that it is untrue that look for reset the payment of vehicle ownership at the federal level, as first Assistant Secretary of Hacienda, Arturo Herrera had raised it.
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Original source in Spanish