Mexico`s president-elect vows to ditch official plane or `die of shame`
(The Guardian Mexico)

López Obrador, delayed by a commercial flight, declines to use `a luxurious plane´ in poverty-stricken countryMexico´s leftist president-elect has pledged to stick to his plans to get rid of the country´s presidential plane - despite finding himself stuck on the tarmac at Huatulco in the southern state of Oaxaca for three hours while using a commercial flight.Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in video footage posted online from onboard the flight to Mexico City, said he would `die of shame` if he used `a luxurious plane in a country where there is so much poverty`. Related: Mexico election: historic landslide victory for leftist Amlo Continue reading...