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Should the U.S. worry about meddling in Mexico’s July presidential race?

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May 29, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential candidate of the National Regeneration Movement Party (MORENA), greets supporters during a campaign rally in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco state, Mexico, on May 22. (Cesar Rodriguez/Bloomberg)

Will Russia — or anyone else — try to interfere in the upcoming Mexican election?

The world has been focusing on evidence that Russia has made a practice of electoral interference, not just in the 2016 U.S. election but also recent elections in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and more. Its approach has been what H.R. McMaster, the former national security adviser, characterized as a campaign of “disinformation, subversion, and espionage.”