The journalist and producer Epigmenio Ibarra said that the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) is the symbol of what the so-called Fourth Transformation (4Q) represents, a movement led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) , while Texcoco Airport (NAIM) was a “monument to megalomania” of former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.
During an interview with Daniela Barragán and Romina Gándara on the Café y Noticias program, the journalist defended the infrastructure inaugurated on March 21 by the chief executive against criticism, where he declared that it is not necessary to produce a work that “wastes luxury”, but something functional.
“It was a temple to megalomania, to Peña Nieto's megalomania, to the megalomania of architects. You don't need something like that, Hamburg Airport, Terminal Four in Madrid, are beautiful buildings, but not sumptuous, they are functional. (...) An airport is a functional work, (which) has to have beauty, but not waste luxury, what they do in the Arab Emirates, in Dubai, where they have plenty of money,” he said.
The producer explained that the airport has to be a place where the people are received, “and yesterday the town went to celebrate, because they understand the profound significance of this airport”.
On the criticism received by the authorities by the merchants who took advantage of the opening to sell Mexican snacks and articles, Epigmenio Ibarra described the negative opinions of “pathetic”.
According to the journalist, the insults come from people who “ran out of arguments”, and who predicted that the flagship work of the current government would fail. “That it wasn't going to be fulfilled, they said it was going to be horrible,” he added.
During the interview, the producer spoke about his documentary “A work of the people”, which testifies to the construction of AIFA, where he stressed that the idea arose during a visit to Texcoco Airport accompanied by the federal president, and he stated that the material would be “austere, simple and awkward”.
He argued that audiovisual is not propaganda, as some opponents described it, since this is “showing off in interviews and wanting to present oneself as the great opinion leader” without taking into account his interviewees and people, something that his documentary, he said, portrays.
“After so many years of war in this country, and I with so many years of experience in war, to see an army that changes its weapons for tools, that works on the construction of a work and that infuses into this enormous mass of workers a discipline, and a mystique, and manages to fulfill a mission in such a short term, that was a phenomenon that we had to tell”, he said.
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