"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.
"La comunidad internacional tiene que prepararse para subirle el costo a las decisiones [autocráticas] de Ortega", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a La Nación.
"Se trata de que el pueblo nicaragüense tenga la oportunidad de ejecutar sus libertades políticas…es un problema de democracia regional", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a El País.
There's a growing consensus about what needs to be done from a legal perspective to protect against fake news, said experts.
“It’s like a slow-motion train wreck,” says the AS/COA vice president of the November 7 vote, widely considered a sham.
International Crisis Group’s Tiziano Breda covers the two elections while El Milenio’s Juan Pablo Sabillón covers efforts to combat young Honduran voters’ apathy.
AS/COA Online previews the November 2021 presidential elections in Chile, Honduras, and Nicaragua, along with legislative midterms in Argentina.
