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

"The deck isn’t stacked against the opposition, there is no deck for the opposition to play with," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Foreign Policy.

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

"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.