AMLO Threatens Slim’s Mexico Highway Deal as Rift Deepens
- President says highway-construction project has taken too long
- Billionaire’s company says it only got permit last year
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants billionaire Carlos Slim to finish a highway project soon or else he’ll take it away, according to newspaper El Financiero.
“For 10 years, a company has had the concession to build this highway and there’s no progress,” Lopez Obrador said over the weekend at an event in the state of Nayarit, home to beach resorts Punta Mita and Sayulita. “I’m going to have a chat with them -- this is over. Either they get to work and finish it, or it’ll be taken back.” The company he referenced is Slim’s Grupo Carso.