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“One of the most extraordinary stories I ever read.”

“How to Hack An Election,” Bloomberg Businessweek‘s interview with the man who rigged elections in Latin America, went viral last week, receiving accolades and coverage around the world.

Thanks to the work of Bloomberg Content Services translation teams across the company and around the globe, the piece by Jordan Roberston, Michael Riley and Andrew Willis was the first posted on the Web in dual languages: English and Spanish.

Within 36 hours:

• Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto publicly denied Sepulveda’s claim of having worked on behalf of his campaign.

• NPR’s “Here and Now,” Univision, CNN en Espanol, PRI’s “The World,”, Radio Fórmula, El Financiero Bloomberg TV and La Nacion (Costa Rica) interviewed the Bloomberg team.

• The English version became the most read story on Bloomberg.com.

• International news coverage of the piece included: The Drudge Report, Longform, The Guardian, The Atlantic, FT, Boing Boing, Fusion, Reforma (Mexico’s largest newspaper), El Economista,  El Financiero, Expansion, BuzzFeed Mexico, Forbes Mexico, Univision, Le Figaro (France), DW (Germany), Il Post (Italy), El Pais (Brazil & Spain), el Periodico (Spain), El Nacional (Venezuela), El Univeral (Mexico), La Estrella (Panama), PanAm Post (Panama), Prensa Libre (Guatemala), Confidencial (Nicaragua) Su Noticiero (Venezuela), Tal Cual (Venezuela), La Jornada, Las2Orillas, Proseco, SDPNoticias, Aristegui Noticias, Sin Embargo, Olmeca Diario, Diario de Yucatan, Vanguardia, La Prensea (San Antonio, TX) and many, many more.

• Bloomberg and Andrés Sepúlveda became Twitter trending topics in Mexico.

• Journalists including many from the New York Times, Reuters, WSJ, The Economist, and Fast Company praised the story as “extraordinary,” “amazing,” “incredible,” and “bonkers,” tweeting, “Brilliantly investigated and written,” “Makes Watergate break-in look like peanuts,” and “One of the most extraordinary stories I ever read.”