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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
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".
José de San Martín
Antonio José de Sucre
Francisco Franco
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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. He had led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic dur
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…America and left a legacy that has influenced political movements in the modern era. However, the term is also used for the authoritarian regimes of Francisco Franco in Spain and Antonio Salazar in Portugal. The term is often used pejoratively by critics of a regime. Spain's General Francisco Franco (1936–1975…
Formal portrait, c. 1960
Franco being held by his parents, on the day of his baptism on 17 December 1892
Francisco and his brother Ramón in North Africa, 1925
Franco in 1930