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
Opera in Latin America by José Zorrilla de San Martín. In the 19th and 20th century, a number of operas were produced in Latin America in which conflict between Europeans and indigenous peoples was a theme. Among the most important operas of this type are "Liropeya" by León Ribeiro (Uruguay); "Guatimotzin" by Aniceto Ortega (Mexico); "Il Guarany" by Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896), based on a novel by the Brazilian José Martiniano de Alencar; "Atzimba" by Ricardo Castro (Mexico, 1864–1907); the three eponymous operas based on the "Tabaré" by José Zorrilla de San Martín, written, respectively, by Arturo Cosgaya Ceballos (Mexico, 1869–1937), Heliodoro Oseguera (Mexico),