Caudillos
Subtitle: Dictators in Spanish America
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780806124285
Subjects: Biography: general; Constitution: government & the state; Political science & theory; Latin America; Executive Bodies; Fascism; History - General History; Literary Criticism; Central America; South America; Latin America - South America; 1830-; Caudillos; History
First sentence: IT has been observed that in many countries of Central and South America the local and even national government has often been monopolized by "strong men," "caudillos," and "caciques" who perpetuate themselves in power, sometimes even under cover of constitutional or judicial fictions.