

The list of problems at Mexico City Airport has long included major drug shipments and illegal migration. 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. 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. (For information on Rules of Origin and Phaseout Periods)īanco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, S.N.C.MEXICO CITY (AP) - 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.

Our mission is to: promote exports and foreign investment in Mexico, assist companies to do business with Mexico, follow up day-to-day Mexico-U.S. (The NAFTA office is the representative branch of the Mexican Ministry of Economy, at the Embassy of Mexico, in Washington, D.C. Subsecretaría de Negociaciones Comerciales Internactionales Secretaría de Comercio y Fomento Industrial (SECOFI)
