Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Would Examine Role of Military in Companies

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Claudia Sheinbaum during an interview in Acapulco on April 19.Photographer: Fred Ramos/Bloomberg
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Mexico’s leading presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum intends, if elected, to evaluate the military’s role in the corporations that have been placed under its control by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

“We have to evaluate how it’s working and, in any case, change the situation,” the frontrunner said Friday when asked whether the companies — including the new state-owned airline and the Maya Train line — should be administered by civilians. “For now, that’s the way it is.”