Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America
Hugh M Hamill
University of Oklahoma Press
9780806124285
0-8061-2428-8
In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international.
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group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Nez, Mexicos Porfirio Daz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican "Benefactor" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Pern and his wife Evita, Paraguays Alfredo Stroessner - called "The Tyrannosaur," Chiles Augusto Pinochet, and Cubas Fidel Castro.
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