AMLO's Conference Promises Change and Cheap Flights

AMLO built airports with soldiers, roasted Zedillo, promised reforms and cheap flights, celebrated falling crime, slammed judge release and “politicization” in Ayotzinapa case.

AMLO's Conference Promises Change and Cheap Flights
Mexican President AMLO holds center stage at his lively morning conference, captivating the audience with his signature blend of pronouncements, puns, and presidential sass. Credit: Andrés Manuel López Obrador

AMLO's morning conference was a windstorm of pronouncements, puns, and presidential sass. Today's agenda was as eclectic, featuring everything from building airports with the military (because who needs construction companies when you have buff dudes in fatigues?) to taking potshots at former presidents (Zedillo, brace yourself, those questions stung like habaneros).

AMLO's Infrastructure: Turns out, the man loves a good public works project. He boasted about saving billions on the Felipe Ángeles Airport (built by the military, natch), bragged about military engineers whipping up banks and hospitals like nobody's business, and even threw shade at the Mexico City International Airport for being, well, old and fancy. Basically, if it has concrete and a ribbon-cutting ceremony, AMLO's there, shovel in hand, ready to declare it a national treasure.