Mexico's new president wants to unload official plane
by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
Dec 04, 2018
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's presidential plane - a luxurious Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner outfitted with flat-screen monitors, executive meeting rooms, sleeping quarters and a shower - left for California Monday.
But Mexico's newly inaugurated president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was not aboard.
The aircraft, purchased by Mexico in 2012 for $218.7 million, is destined for sale, a high-profile casualty of the leftist president's pledges to cut government spending.
"I will not enter the presidential plane," Lopez
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