The Mexican government saw the future in these cornfields spread across
the dry Texcoco lake bed about 18 miles east of Mexico City. Here it
envisioned spending $2.3 billion for a state-of-the-art, six-runway
airport that would be Mexico's shiny new face to the world for the 21st
century. It was to replace the choked-up, jury-rigged airfield that has
served the capital since the dawn of the 20th.
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