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Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.
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Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
That includes Democrats calling Trump a caudillo — a stereotypical Latin American strongman — or Republicans accusing Biden for being socialist in the style of left-wing Latin American leaders.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes and, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
And this caudillo style (to put it politely) is ensconced in the United States.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 June 2024
Others were more sanguine, confident that after more than two decades of reforms designed to modernize the country, Mexican institutions were strong enough to contain the ambitions of the 65-year-old caudillo.
—Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
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Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
That includes Democrats calling Trump a caudillo — a stereotypical Latin American strongman — or Republicans accusing Biden for being socialist in the style of left-wing Latin American leaders.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes and, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
And this caudillo style (to put it politely) is ensconced in the United States.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 June 2024
Others were more sanguine, confident that after more than two decades of reforms designed to modernize the country, Mexican institutions were strong enough to contain the ambitions of the 65-year-old caudillo.
—Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caudillo
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Kabul, the capital, was in ruins resembling Dresden after World War II; various warlords were fighting block to block.—
Peter Bergen,
CNN Money,
18 Dec. 2025
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Then just in his early 50s, Nakadai played much older, wearing intense, ghost-like makeup to portray a desolate, world-weary warlord.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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Turning the dial, Charlamagne’s elevation to multi-platform talk overlord reinforces the South Carolina chatter’s grip on the title of hip-hop personality called upon to represent the culture outside its confines.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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In the absence of her evil overlords, does Glinda live up to the task Elphaba entrusts her with?—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
22 Nov. 2025
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Lula’s insistence on maintaining ties with the late anti-American autocrat, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, stoked tensions.—
Ron Kampeas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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By prohibiting questions and challenges, autocrats gain the power to limit how people think and control their bodies.—
Elizabeth Anne Wood,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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Over in India, French strategists succeeded in forging a pivotal new anti-British alliance with Haidar Ali, the Muslim ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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More recently, Waleed Al-Ibrahim was temporarily detained under orders of current de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as part of a 2018 corruption probe.—
Deena Sabry,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The fascination with boss-employee relationships will probably never fade.—
Emily Nix,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Another individual familiar with events said Turness, the boss of BBC News, has repeatedly made efforts to get the corporation to respond to Prescott’s memo.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Caudillo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caudillo. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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