Who will benefit from Bukele's Airport of the Pacific?
In 2019, when he was campaigning for the presidency, Nayib Bukele unveiled plans for a modern international airport in the department of La Union at the eastern edges of El Salvador. He called it the "Airport of the Pacific," and claimed it would become an international airline bub. Three years later, in 2022, the government said that Nayib Bukele would lay the first stone for the new airport that year. Nothing happened that year. After three more years have passed, there has finally been a ceremony to lay the first stone. On February 26, the government broadcast Bukele's speech as he celebrated the beginning of construction of the airport and extolled the benefits it would bring: pic.twitter.com/BlzsMcMGfq — Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 26, 2025 According to Bukele, the airport's first phase is going to have a 2.4 kilometers long runway with two boarding gates and a futuristic looking terminal. Investment in the first phase of t...