MEXICO CITY, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday floated the
MEXICO CITY, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday floated the concept of raffling off his predecessor’s $130 million jet after the federal government’s efforts to promote the airplane over the previous yr got here to nothing.
Mexico has but to discover a purchaser for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which the leftist Lopez Obrador has forged as an emblem of extra and corruption in earlier governments in a rustic the place round half the inhabitants lives in poverty.
In search of to color his predecessors as a part of an out-of-touch elite, Lopez Obrador has made some extent of taking industrial flights, and has auctioned off many authorities planes and helicopters.
However promoting the luxurious jet, acquired by former President Enrique Pena Nieto in 2012, has confirmed robust. Earlier this week Lopez Obrador stated the plane would return to Mexico from California after potential gross sales to non-public patrons fell by.
One choice into consideration is to dump the airplane in a raffle, with the nationwide…