AMLO Upgrades to Private Military Jet After Years of Flying Coach

The president is traveling to Colombia and Chile this week
He used to champion coach travel earlier in his presidency

AMLO sits with staffers while traveling in economy class aboard a commercial flight from Guadalajara to Mexico City on March 9, 2019.Photographer: Marco Ugarte/AP Photo

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By Maya Averbuch and Carolina Gonzalez

September 6, 2023 at 5:09 PM UTC

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Every powerful person has a limit for coach flights, even the famously austere Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

AMLO, as the leader is known, will take this week the farthest trip of his presidency in a private plane that belongs to Mexico’s military, a break from his much-hyped stance earlier in his presidency to fly commercial routes to demonstrate his allegiance to government austerity.