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Mexican businessman offers to buy presidential plane
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – A Mexican businessman is
offering to buy the president’s plane and use it as a “taxi,” local media
reported.
Gustavo Jimenez Pons landed at President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez
Obradors’ office Thursday with an offer to buy the 300-seat Boeing 787 with
99 million U.S. dollars, the newspaper Reforma reported.
Lopez Obradors, who won a landslide victory in elections in July, said he
would never use the plane, calling it a wasteful luxury.
He will assume the presidency on Dec. 1.
The businessman said he wants to use the aircraft as a taxi for
“presidents of other countries who do not have private planes, or rock groups
like the Rolling Stones.”
The jetliner was purchased in 2016 by outgoing President Enrique Pena
Nieto, and is valued at 220 million dollars, according to local media
reports.
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