The airport in the east
Since beginning his campaign to be president of El Salvador, one of the signature proposals of Nayib Bukele has been a plan to build an international airport in the eastern department of La Union. Here he is in the video of his campaign presentation of Plan Cuscatlan in the weeks before the 2019 election. The website of El Salvador's Port Authority ("CEPA" for its initials in Spanish) describes the objective of the airport project: The Government of El Salvador seeks to convert the eastern zone into a pole of economic development, encourage the growing demand for passengers abroad, develop international tourism and activate the Port of La Unión. The Bukele government is now saying that construction of the airport will begin this year. Cristian Flores, the chief of strategic projects for the government, says that the government received a feasibility study estimating the airport will generate 4700 jobs in its first year and 50,000 jobs by the end of 10 years....