Cambridge Analytica says it played a decisive role in Trump's win. Now it's staffing up to run campaigns in eight Mexican states.

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Cambridge Analytica, the data company that claims at least partial credit for President Donald Trump's 2016 win, is hiring staffers to work on campaigns throughout Mexico in 2018. Arielle Dale Karro, head of operations in Mexico at Cambridge Analytica, posted this ad on Facebook on Oct. 23, in the group "Foreigners in Mexico City":

Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/ariellekarro/?hl=es Arielle Dale Karro's message to the Facebook group Foreigners in Mexico City

It's not clear which party or candidates the company is working for in Mexico, but according to Karro's hunt for staffers, the company will be working on the campaigns for governor in seven of Mexico's 31 states: Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Veracruz. It is also looking for someone based in Mexico City.

But as of Tuesday, the London-based company doesn't appear in the databases of the National Registry of Suppliers of the National Electoral Institute (INE), a requirement for any company that wants to be hired by a political party in Mexico. "Our political division generally does not make public who its clients are," Nick Fievet, Cambridge's global head of public relations, told BuzzFeed News in an email, when asked just what parties Cambridge will be working with in Mexico and what kind of services they were offering.

Cambridge announced last July that it would be partnering in Mexico and Colombia with Pig.gi, an app that, according to a report at the time from Bloomberg, "gives 200,000 active users free service in exchange for watching ads, reading stories and taking surveys." Many people in Mexico are "undecided and unmotivated," Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge’s vice president of business development, told Bloomberg. “There’s a huge opportunity in this country to find the issues that are important for people and actually turn people out to vote.”



Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/ariellekarro/?hl=es Karro participated last April in an event organized by PAN Senator Ernesto Cordero, close to former President Felipe Calderón