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Recent Examples of caudillo
Hatuey, the TaÃno chief who fought the Spanish conquistadores and is known as the Americas’ earliest revolutionary, was a caudillo.
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Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
9 Dec. 2025
Any analogy to this Presidency can be found only in the history of other countries, in the whims and cruelties and fantasies and insanities of the tyrants of antiquity, tin-pot dictators, Latin American caudillos, and modern strongmen.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
Instead of building strong political parties with coherent platforms, the country ended up with rival caudillos— Sandinista on the left and anti-Sandinista on the right.
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Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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
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Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
9 Dec. 2025
Any analogy to this Presidency can be found only in the history of other countries, in the whims and cruelties and fantasies and insanities of the tyrants of antiquity, tin-pot dictators, Latin American caudillos, and modern strongmen.
—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
Instead of building strong political parties with coherent platforms, the country ended up with rival caudillos— Sandinista on the left and anti-Sandinista on the right.
—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.
—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caudillo
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In the movie, Furiosa is taken from her idyllic home by bandits and grows up shuttled between psychopath Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) and warlord Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme).
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In turn, the twins will provide crucial information on the whereabouts of an elusive Empire warlord named Coin.
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Yes, other Hollywood depictions of the future had predicted similar technology over the years, but guess what year Apple overlord Steve Jobs announced the breakthrough videotelephony product known as FaceTime?
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After a brief burst of good ratings results, CBS News is once against under a dark cloud of allegations of MAGA appeasement and corporate-overlord overreach.
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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.
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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.
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The game is a playground for Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern potentates, and Latin American strongmen—his people.
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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.
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.
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Trump might soon gain another ideological bedfellow in Peru with the election of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of late autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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Trump has made clear his disdain for NATO, his affection for Putin, gushes over autocrats, and withholds military support for Ukraine.
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Mnangagwa has been in power since 2017, when the military backed the ouster of his mentor and Zimbabwe's longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019.
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Democracies are composed of citizens with free will, not subjects cowering at the feet of rulers.
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Countless Argentina bosses tried and failed.
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On Thursday, the Interior Department was claiming to have beat back the toxic blooms — while doing a drive-by trashing of Barack Obama to please the boss.
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“Caudillo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caudillo. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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