Overview

• Photos and video show Gerardo Fernández Noroña using a Socata TBM-850 during a weekend swing through Torreón, Piedras Negras and Ciudad Acuña.
• Reforma’s estimate puts the rental at about $2,000 per flight hour for roughly six hours plus an overnight, totaling around $14,000, or about 280,000 pesos.
• Noroña defended the flight as a time-saving “air taxi,” said he does not have to disclose expenses, and insisted it was not funded with public money.
• He said, with evident irony, that Ricardo Salinas Pliego paid for it; the businessman swiftly rejected that claim on X and demanded a public apology.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum said Noroña must provide his own explanation, and no proof has been presented identifying who financed the trip.