"No hubo tiempo de organizar primarias porque no había claridad sobre la estrategia", dijo Guillermo Zubillaga de AS/COA a CNN en Español.

“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.

"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.

"The protests are broad based…they may well gather momentum, challenging the regime to the core," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald.

"Lo que hace es comprometer a Estados Unidos a tomar varias acciones", dijo el vicepresidente de AS/COA.

Ahead of the November 28 vote, AS/COA Online monitors the competition between Nasry Asfura, Xiomara Castro, and Yani Rosenthal.