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President AMLO assured that airspace degradation is not a matter of fundamental concern.
He criticized the insistence of media such as Time to qualify officials without the necessary criteria to do so.
The Government has not been able to recover category 1 in almost two years, while Felipe Calderón did it in 40 days.
Today, during the “La Mañanera” press conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) spoke about the degradation of airspace to category 2 and dismissed that this is an impediment to the operations of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport ( AIFA), considering that these organizations usually have poor criteria.
Government dismisses degradation of airspace and criticism of Time
The head of the Executive branch criticized the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). which is in charge of qualifying the quality and security of airports in the world and the same one that is evaluated to measure the presence of flights with the United States, this because it considered that many of its criteria are doubtful.
“Yesterday I was reading, I think the one who wrote on Twitter. I had not heard this statement, but I also think that everyone knows how drugs were brought into the airport. Once there was a shooting. Well, at that time the city’s airport was category 1”.
In the same way, he spoke about the comparison with the six-year term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, who would have solved this problem of being downgraded to category 2 in just 40 days.
“Yesterday a supporter of conservatism said, ‘we have spent a year and a half without achieving category 1, because they demoted us.’ This same company that qualifies […] says ‘Felipe Calderón solved it in 40 days and all the time it was category 1’, that is, quality. I say all this so that we are not believing that these organizations are infallible”.
The president also commented that these types of studies are what allowed past six-year terms to continue with the construction of the Texcoco airport, without having previously carried out any study in between.
“I remember that there is an organization that authorizes the management of airspace, also international, which I know that without doing studies of any kind, because there were interests involved, they decided that the two airports had to be closed to build the airport of Texcoco, the Mexico City Airport and the Santa Lucía Airport had to be closed. Because of aerial interference, according to them. And so, a lot of falsehood ”.
Finally, AMLO criticized the speeches of organizations and the media, who, according to his criteria, tend to intervene in a superficial way without really generating a pertinent study.
“This happens in finance, international organizations that rate the economy of a country, there are international rating agencies. When the robbery was there, the looting was high in PEMEX, in the country, the rating agencies gave them three stars”.
“These magazines took the cover ‘the President of the year’, ‘the financier of the year to the Secretary of the Treasury’. So, now I remembered this… they qualify as level 1, level 2, or the organizations supposed to defend Human Rights. Or the supposed defenders of the environment who never protested when the airport was going to be built on Lake Texcoco, that they were going to leave the birds without water, with great ecological impact. Not a single protection.”
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