A crucial presidential election is coming up in Mexico. On July 1, more than 90 million Mexicans, some of whom reside abroad, will elect a president who, according to all surveys, will be center-leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who leads polls by more than 20 points. 

Obrador is followed by Ricardo Anaya of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, that governed the country from 2000 to 2012, and José Antonio Meade of the presently…