Passengers arriving at Latin America’s busiest airport now encounter uniformed marines, who direct them to immigration queues, supervise customs checks and patrol the terminal.
This is the most visible element of what amounts to a military takeover: 1,500 troops were deployed to Mexico City’s Benito Juárez airport after populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador drafted in a retired senior naval officer to run the facility.
“There was corruption everywhere . . . [so] the…
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