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Judi Lynn

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1. Mexican president-elect stuck on commercial flight - video

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Fri Sep 21, 2018, 12:24 PM

Sep 2018

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Mexico’s president-elect had to wait three hours on the tarmac of an airport runway waiting for a commercial flight to take off, after promising to sell the country’s presidential plane. In video footage posted online from onboard the delayed flight from Huatulco to Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would 'die of shame' if he used 'a luxurious plane in a country where there is so much poverty'.

Mexico's president-elect vows to ditch official plane or 'die of shame'
Fri 21 Sep 2018 09.53 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/sep/21/mexican-president-elect-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-stuck-on-commercial-flight-video

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