Foreign intervention in local elections around the world

To be honest with you, no foreign intervention in a local election can impress me after reading (years ago) Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East, Wilbur Eveland.  Read this book and see what the US did to win an election in...Lebanon of all places.  If I don't hear about briefcases full of cash, I dont call it a real intervention in an election.