Salvador Cienfuegos, former head of Sedena, among the guests of honor at AIFA

The Felipe Ángeles International Airport, known as AIFA, was inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) among more than a thousand honored guests who attended the musical ceremony by symphonics and orchestras.

Among those invited to the grand opening were various entrepreneurs such as Carlos Slim from Grupo Carso, Carlos Bremer from Value, Patricia Armendáriz from Sustainable Finance, Emilio Azcárraga from Televisa, and Francisco Cervantes Díaz, president of the Business Coordinating Council, among others.

On behalf of the AMLO cabinet, Rosa Icela Rodríguez from the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle, as well as the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Rogelio Ramírez of the O.

However, he also highlighted the assistance of Salvador Cienfuegos, who was accused of drug trafficking offenses, and was even arrested in the United States for an investigation against him. The retired general was the holder of Sedena during the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto.

In addition, Guillermo Galván, who served in the same position, was present on the list of 1,400 guests, but from 2006 to 2012, when Felipe Calderón, champion of the National Action Party (PAN).

Jenaro Villamil himself, president of the Mexican State Public Broadcasting System (SPR), revealed Cienfuegos's attendance on Twitter, where he wrote that “the inauguration of #AIFA is a pride for all Mexican armed forces. SEDENA summons the entire military high command, including several former secretaries of defense...”

In addition, he showed with a photograph that there was a special area for all the senior commanders of the Secretariat of National Defense, as well as the former holders of it, and where, in the front rows, Cienfuegos stood out.

Governor Alfredo del Mazo of the State of Mexico, the standard-bearer of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), praised the new airport by calling it “the most important infrastructure work completed in the country during this century.”

Also present was Omar Fayad, the governor of Hidalgo and representative of the National Action Party (PAN), who assured that it is a gateway to getting to know other regions of the country as the leading state.

“I hope that everyone who has time, now if they know that as soon as they land at this airport, if the schedule gives them, within minutes they will have the best barbecue, the best wild boar, the best gualumbos and the best scales because they will be close to go to eat,” said the official.

On behalf of her colleagues in Q4, Claudia Sheinbaum, head of government of Mexico City, spoke in the face of Claudia Sheinbaum, who evoked and shook the “failed” Texcoco Airport started in the six-year term of former president Enrique Peña Nieto.

“I have to say, we can't forget the failed project they wanted to build on the old Lake Texcoco that involved closing the Santa Lucia Military Airport and Mexico City Airport (ACIM),” Sheinbaum insisted.

This, by ensuring that this project would have required more than twice the budget used for that of Saint Lucia, as well as “a huge” maintenance expense for the area in which it was planned to be built.

Hence, the capital's president urged those who opposed the construction of the Megaproject in Saint Lucia to witness with their own eyes the “magnitude of Felipe Ángeles”. “Who can be against this? Only those who measure exclusively for their personal interests; those who benefited for decades from being on the side of power,” said the president.

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