“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.
The political crisis will be solved in Managua, said the exiled Nicaraguan journalist in a conversation with Eric Farnsworth.
"La democracia ha dado pasos concretos hacia atrás en todo el hemisferio este siglo", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a la Voz de América.
With most of the opposition jailed, Daniel Ortega is poised to tighten his grip on power in the November 7 vote.
"He really sees not just that the opposition itself is very weak…but, frankly, that the international community is in disarray," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to NPR.
