Mexico navy to take total control of Mexico City airport operations

The president touted reduced crime rates in the airport due to the military’s running of security over the last year, but experts said the claim is unverifiable.

CODY COPELAND / June 28, 2023

MEXICO CITY (CN) — With the military already running security, air traffic control and customs duties, Mexico’s navy will soon take over all operations at the Mexico City International Airport, the country’s president said Wednesday.

“It’s already in charge of surveillance of the Mexico City airport,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told a reporter at his daily morning press conference who asked when the change would take place.

He then hailed the military’s work in the tasks it has been carrying out to date, claiming it has made the airport safer and lowered rates of crime like drug trafficking and luggage theft.

“It’s done a very good job,” he said. “I think many people are already noticing it. There’s no more theft of luggage, as before, and they’re taking care not to allow the entrance of contraband, drugs. We’re avoiding going to extremes like when the Mexico City airport was controlled by drug traffickers.”

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