"It would send the right message to the private sector to stay away from Nicaragua," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press.

"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.

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

From condemnation to praise, many of the region’s biggest players weighed in on Sunday’s election.

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

After Daniel Ortega’s sham election, is there anything the world can do?

"The hard-won lessons of the 20th Century of the evils of dictatorship are now being forgotten," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Wall Street Journal.