Mexico City International Airport airlines flying directly to Europe, Central, North and South America, Middle East, Africa and East Asia. The following airlines operate the scheduled destinations below. Airlines providing on-demand cargo services In 2017, Mexico City International Airport moved 44,732,418 passengers, making it the busiest airport in Latin America in terms of total passengers. It registered a year-to-year increase of 7.2%. In terms of international passengers, it was the second busiest airport in Latin America with 15,753,355 passengers, behind Cancún and the second busiest in Mexico after Cancún. The airport is the busiest in Latin America by aircraft movements with 24% more operations
Slavery in Latin America According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s film on the slave trade in Mexico, the integration of African peoples was so pervasive that every Mexican has an "African grandma hiding in their closet." The slaves would be forced to work in mines and plantations. Today, the most African communities live in coastal towns, "Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific". Over 70 percent of slaves in Latin American worked on sugar cane plantations due to the importance of this crop to economies there at the time. Slaves also worked in the production of tobacco,