Economist Rodrigo Chaves outperformed polls to place second and secure a spot against former President José María Figueres in the April 3 runoff.
"We all need to recognize the responsibility that advanced economy creditors have to their stressed borrowers," cowrites AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes in Reuters Breakingviews.
"Market participants urgently need to make reforms to prevent a deepening debt crisis in developing economies," cowrites AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes in The Wall Street Journal.
Recognition of Central America as part of a larger North American economic zone is necessary to reduce the factors driving migration, writes AS/COA's Steve Liston in The Hill.
"We are in a global battle for hearts and minds, where decisions are being made today that will lock in relationships for the longer term," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The National Interest.
"The biggest challenge for keeping ties productive will be sustaining the attention necessary to tackle deep-rooted problems," writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis in World Politics Review.
"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.
