As Mexico Sinks Deeper, AMLO Turns Spotlight on Presidential Jet
- He gives tour of plane’s master bedroom, says sale is near
- Analysts say plane is a distraction from outbreak, recession
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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.