Caudillos and their Origins
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2020-12-07

There are many factors which are considered to have played a role in the emergence of caudillos. Different scholars have very different perspectives on this topic. I will be introducing 3 different ways of looking at the establishment of caudilismo presented by Charles Chapman, Richard Morse and William Beezley, which can be divided into 2 categories, the Spanish monarchy and colonialism.

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Video made by Jasmine, Sami, and Sarita for the University of British Columbia class, "LAST100: Introduction to Latin American Studies" (http://last100.arts.ubc.ca).