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In Mexico, Candidates Move Away From Cambridge Analytica

The data-mining company being scrutinized in the U.S. may have been involved in Mexican politics since last year, and presidential candidates are scrambling to distance themselves from the firm.
Presidential candidate and front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech during a rally in Guadalajara on Feb. 11. On Wednesday, he said of Cambridge Analytica: "Now that it's a worldwide scandal, people are finally paying attention."

Candidates in Mexico's volatile presidential race are scrambling to distance themselves from the disgraced big-data firm Cambridge Analytica.

Executives of the company boasted on tape, secretly recorded by a British TV station, of their ability to influence elections in numerous countries including Mexico. Cambridge Analytica — which is for its ties to Facebook and the Trump campaign in

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