Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is honouring a pledge made on the campaign trail by selling the nations version of Air Force One, for US $200M.
More than 43% of Mexico’s 129 million population live in poverty, and Obrador says he would hang his head in shame to get on such a luxury jet in a country with so much poverty.
With the campaign slogan, “for the good of all, the poor must come first”, Mr Obrador won the election with the largest margin in Mexican history.