They voted out the FSLN with good cause, in as much as the Sandinistas were imposing the same kind of austerity on their own people as the IMF was doing elsewhere. Whether that situation would have developed the way it did without the Contra war, the economic blockade, etc. is an interesting issue, but not one I'm interested in taking up here. When the capitalists and their politicians gig the whole electoral process in their own favor and command the vast majority of resources that can be brought to bear in it, it is hardly surprising that their guys usually win. What is astounding is how, from time to time, they lose. Of the first, I have no doubt, regardless of the vote.
Few people desire instability.
They have decided to fight the instability of their lives, not accept it and the death it brings. They are willing to fight, fight not only for better times, but for times that are better than they have been in the past with the PRI party-state squatting on their lives like some giant blood sucking spider and weaving a tissue of corruption and insecurity throughout the society in which they live. Try as you may, vote counting does not the whole story tell, or even the most essential part of it. You know I am no apologist for either Lenin or Stalin. Such unprovoked harangues sound like a broken record of Jean Kirkpatrick's Cold War rhetoric.