A judge in Mexico has ordered President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government to halt construction on a new airport and preserve work on a rival project he tried to scrap, activists said Monday.
He wants to replace it with a cheaper -- but highly controversial -- alternative, converting an existing airbase into a second airport for the capital.
The decision by the court in the central state of Mexico freezes construction at the Santa Lucia airbase until the government shows it has "all necessary permits," said a collective of activists and business groups that filed 147 separate complaints to block the project on environmental, safety and other grounds.
