Mexican president finally offloads unwanted luxury jet … to Tajikistan
by Reuters in Mexico City from World news | The Guardian on (#6B1G4)
Leader widely known as Amlo called predecessor's plane an insult' but now Tajikistan government pays $92m to take it off his hands
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has finally found a buyer for a luxury presidential jet that he once called an insult" to the people: the government of Tajikistan.
Lopez Obrador said that the agreed sale price for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner used by his predecessor Enrique Pena Nieto - but never by him - was about 1.66bn pesos, or about $92m.
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