Overview

• The Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Ministry said Avendaño replaces Miguel Enrique Vallin Osuna as AFAC director effective October 1.
• The ministry also named jurist Sonia Edith Jiménez Hernández to lead the Directorate General of Protection and Preventive Medicine in Transport.
• The announcements were released with biographical summaries but without a public explanation for the leadership changes, according to the coverage.
• Avendaño, a retired division general and career military aviator with more than 40 years of service, becomes the third AFAC chief from the Armed Forces in five years.
• Reporting highlights that U.S. authorities contend Mexico has not fully complied with the bilateral air-transport agreement, a dispute that could jeopardize Delta–Aeroméxico’s antitrust immunity.