From: David N. Barnett 

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:16:54 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message :

| The poor and the middle class threw the murdering thieving Sandinistas
out | as soon as the Sandinistas dared to let them vote.  In their place
the | contras or people supported by the contras rose to power, and there
was no | dictatorship.

I seem to recall that Madame Somosa, the leader who supplanted Ortega, was
not directly associated with the Contras, and was rather moderate. And she
was also an ineffective leader who didn't last very long.

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