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The November 28 election may be as much a referendum on democracy as a decision about the next president.

AS/COA Online cubre los grandes desarrollos y distribuciones de la vacuna mientras los países se esfuerzan por alcanzar la inmunidad colectiva. 

AS/COA Online covers major developments and vaccine rollouts as countries strive to reach herd immunity.

The two polar-opposite candidates will try to woo voters from the center ahead of the December 19 second-round vote.

The Biden administration has joined China and Russia in the vaccine diplomacy race in Latin America. See where U.S. donations have arrived.

We look at top candidates’ stances on immigration, inflation, pensions, and more.

“You can’t force people to vote when they themselves are convinced that the system is completely rigged,” says the AS/COA Venezuela Working Group head of the November 21 vote.

The three heads of state meet on November 18. AS/COA’s Carin Zissis covers what’s on the docket at the first North American Leaders Summit in five years.

"Neither the United States nor Nicaragua’s neighbors took meaningful steps to slow or reverse the democratic slide," said the AS/COA vice president to Forbes.com.

See how the competition between presidential hopefuls is taking shape ahead of the November 21 elections.

"This is a more serious effort, but it should have been done months or even years ago," said the AS/COA vice president.

With signs the opposition coalition is poised to make gains, the special advisor to AS/COA analyzes what the November 14 legislative elections mean for the country's future political course. 

By denying the Ortega regime of the legitimacy it seeks, Washington and the international community can discourage other budding dictators, writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for Univision.

"There is no way that anybody with an objective view would consider today's election exercise to be anything but a charade," said the AS/COA vice president.

Here’s how support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador looks as he reaches the midway point of his six-year term.

“It’s like a slow-motion train wreck,” says the AS/COA vice president of the November 7 vote, widely considered a sham.