Three years’ worth of work in progress on a planned $13-billion airport for Mexico City were put at risk in the wake of the president-elect’s announcement that he would scrap the project after voters rejected it in a four-day referendum late last month.
Incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had organized the informal referendum, which included only about 1.2% of the population voting 70% against the project. Media reports have questioned the integrity of the voting process.