A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique, was a tribal chieftain of certain Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, including the Kalinago and Taíno peoples, who were Indigenous peoples
Túpac Amaru II, an Andean cacique[clarification needed] who led a 1781 rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru
Cangapol, chief of the Tehuelches, 18th century.
Mapuche cacique (lonko) Lloncon, southern Chile, around 1890
A caudillo is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power. The term is historically associated with Spain and post-independence Hispanic America. It is often used interchangeabl
Cacique
…group they encountered in the Western Hemisphere. In Hispanic and Lusophone countries, the term has also come to mean a political boss, similar to a caudillo, exercising power in a system of caciquism. The word cacique descends from the Kalinago word kassiquan, which means "to keep house". In 1555 the word…
Juan Manuel de Rosas, c. 1841 by Cayetano Descalzi, the caudillo paradigm
Emilio Aguinaldo, a Filipino revolutionary who was the first president of the Philippines, and was nicknamed "El Caudillo".