Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America Paperback - 1992
by Hugh Hamill (Editor)
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IT has been observed that in many countries of Central and South America the local and even national government has often been monopolized by "strong men," "caudillos," and "caciques" who perpetuate themselves in power, sometimes even under cover of constitutional or judicial fictions.
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All societies have had personalist leaders. There is little dispute, however, that Spanish American caudillos have been more numerous and more pervasive than such leaders in other regions. Further, while the words caudillo and caudillismo are variants of dictator and dictatorship, they have a special resonance that suggests the unique political environment of Spanish America. It can be argued that a caudillo is able to achieve legitimacy within the established value system, whereas a dictator depends primarily on force to sustain power and is, therefore, illegitimate. Definition often depends upon whether one favors or opposes a particular authoritarian leader. In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The theoretical arguments in Hamill's introduction and the first five chapters are followed by twenty-two chronologically arranged essays on individual caudillos. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Nunez, Mexico's Porfirio Diaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican "Benefactor" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Peron and his wife Evita, Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner--called "The Tyrannosaur", Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba's Fidel Castro. The reader emerges with a heightened awareness ofthe almost infinite varieties of caudillismo and of the complex culture in which this controversial Spanish American phenomenon is to be found. Photographs of the caudillos accompany the text.
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- Title Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America
- Author Hugh Hamill (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A
- Date 1992-01-01
- ISBN 9780806124285 / 0806124288
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050863
- Dewey Decimal Code 980
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