New International Airport for Mexico City New International Airport for Mexico City Mexico City's New International Airport (NAICM) was announced in the State of the Union address of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on September 2, 2014, and was the largest public infrastructure work in Mexico in a century. The new airport was set to replace current Benito Juárez International Airport, the busiest airport in Latin America transporting 41.7 million passengers in 2016. The development of NAICM was planned in four stages. Phase I, was scheduled to open by October 20, 2020, would have consisted of one main terminal of and three independent runways, which would
Latin America of the Second Mexican Empire. This term was also used in 1861 by French scholars in "La revue des races Latines," a magazine dedicated to the Pan-Latinism movement. The distinction between "Latin America" and "Anglo-America" is a convention based on the predominant languages in the Americas by which Romance-language and English-speaking cultures are distinguished. Neither area is culturally or linguistically homogeneous; in substantial portions of Latin America (e.g., highland Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala), Native American cultures and, to a lesser extent, Amerindian languages, are predominant, and in other areas, the influence of African cultures is strong (e.g., the Caribbean basinincluding