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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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Xenosauridae is a monotypic family of lizards native to Mexico and Central America that consists of 10 recognized species. 10 species occur in Mexico. Xenosaurus agrenon King & Thompson, 1968; Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856) Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca, García-Vázquez, Zúñiga-Vega & Schmidt-Ballardo, 2013; Xenosaurus newmanorum ...
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.
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.
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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 ...
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 ...