Mexico leftist says he would try to halt energy auctions if...

Presidential frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that if elected on July 1, he will ask President Enrique Peña Nieto “to halt two upcoming oil auctions scheduled to occur before assuming office on December 1. Speaking in Mexico City on the 80th anniversary of Mexican nationalization of oil, the left-wing candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) spoke about the prospect of reducing the privatization of energy, enshrined in a 2014 reform that aimed to eliminate state-owned oil monopoly.”