The first known English settlement was built by shipwrecked British sailors in 1638. It was owned by Spain, but more and more British settlers arrived and in the area was annexed as a British colony became British Honduras.
Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador stressed that the airport to be built in the air base of St. Lucia will have international category.
He announced that the current Benito Juarez airport will be used only for domestic flights.
Lopez Obrador pointed out that the fitting out of the Santa Lucia military base replaces the failed project in Texcoco, canceled by the federal government after submitting it to plebiscite for being too expensive.
Miguel Torruco Marques, head of the Secretariat of Tourism (Sectur), acknowledged that the announcement led to criticism from representatives of the national aviation sector, who said that this decision overturns the warnings of the adverse effects of operating with three air terminals.
Terruco Marquez admitted that Toluca, as the third terminal, will complement the other two, which as a whole will be part of the great metropolitan project, as all the cities in the world that do not close their airports do when they build additional ones.
In his statements, he considered that the cancellation of the Texcoco air terminal would not hinder the purposes of Sectur to generate more foreign exchange for tourism in the next six years.
The first known English settlement was built by shipwrecked British sailors in 1638. It was owned by Spain, but more and more British settlers arrived and in the area was annexed as a British colony became British Honduras.
