A vote foretold. September primaries gave a hint of what’s to come in Argentina’s November 14 midterms, and the Fernández government is likely looking at a loss of legislative power. In a Q&A, Juan Cruz Díaz, AS/COA special advisor, covers steps the governing coalition has taken to sway voters and how the elections could shape 2023 presidential tickets.

A race redrawn. Salvador Nasralla dropped out of Honduras’ presidential race last month, six weeks ahead of the November 28 election. Will his decision to back Xiomara Castro help the repeat candidate and wife of ousted ex-President Manuel Zelaya beat the governing party candidate and Tegucigalpa Mayor Tito Nasfura? Check out our poll tracker.

See our Election Guide to see what’s happening in other races, including Chile’s presidential elections.

A die cast. Nicaragua’s election is in the rear view and Daniel Ortega won another term, surprising no one. AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth writes in Univision that the international community needs to reject the results “if only to discourage other budding dictators across the region from taking similar steps.”

Americas Quarterly explores how Latin America reacted to Nicaragua’s sham vote.

THEY SAID WHAT?

• Brazil 2022: Sergio Moro, the Brazilian judge behind Lula’s arrest, threw his hat in the ring while President Jair Bolsonaro, who’s had no party for two years, joined forces with the centrist Liberal Party. (Bloomberg, The New York Times)
• North American heads of state will hold their first trilateral meeting in five years on November 18. (AFP)
• The EU is making a policy play in Venezuela. Washington is not amused. (The Washington Post)
• Nayib Bukele is taking a move out of Ortega’s playbook with a bill that would allow government critics to be punished as foreign agents. (EFE)
• Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso is in a tough spot as his presidential honeymoon ends. (Financial Times)
• Costa Rica is the first country in the world to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for children. (BBC)

More people cast null votes in Nicaragua’s election than voted for any one candidate—including Ortega.

Chilean Deputy Jaime Naranjo ran a legislative marathon when he spoke on the floor for more than 14 hours so a colleague could wrap up a quarantine at midnight on Tuesday and come cast the deciding vote in the lower house's vote on the impeachment of President Sebastián Piñera.