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In Mexico, two fictional caudillos are depicted by Mariano Azuela's 1916 novel The Underdogs [49] and Carlos Fuentes's novel The Death of Artemio Cruz. [50] In 1929, Mexican writer Martín Luis Guzmán published his novel La sombra del caudillo , a powerful critic of such strongmen.
A caudillo (Spanish pronunciation: [kawˈdiʎo]; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head". Caudillo means "little head" or "little chief") is part of the larger Iberian tradition of authoritarian leaders, with roots in the Iberian past, particularly in the Reconquista. [ 2 ]
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Argentine caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, an example of a criollo of full-Spanish descent. The word criollo and its Portuguese cognate crioulo are believed by some scholars, including the eminent Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, to derive from the Spanish/Portuguese verb criar, meaning 'to breed' or 'to raise'; however, no evidence supports this derivation in early Spanish ...
1 Article title should be "Latin American Caudillos" 1 comment. 2 Descriptive paragraphs needed for caudillos, either by country or type of caudillo. . 1 comment. 3 Fork.
On its blog, Craigslist dismisses Blumenthal's move as a publicity stunt, and emphasizes that "craigslist has gone beyond fulfilling its legal obligations, far beyond classifieds industry norms ...
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In Mexico and Indonesia, populist sentiment has come down in recent years, while it is on the rise in the U.K. and South Africa. Past analysis suggests that elections themselves can tamp down ...