“From here on out, if Maduro is to rule, it will be by fear and oppression, because he has no credibility remaining,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Bloomberg. 

The opposition PRD party leads the race in the seven-candidate field ahead of the May 5 vote.

"It's a man-made crisis and it is the largest and worst humanitarian crisis the Western Hemisphere has seen," said vice president of AS/COA.

Corruption has taken center-stage in Panama’s first presidential election since the release of the Panama Papers.

“His [Leopoldo López's] public appearance outside house arrest will galvanize the street," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth about Venezuela in an interview with The Washington Post.

“He is Guaidó’s patron and would be a key figure in a free Venezuela," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The Washington Post about Leopoldo López. 

A year after civil unrest broke out in the Central American country, the former U.S. ambassador explains why Nicaragua needs international attention.