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Maduro’s arrest is being compared to the 1989 invasion of Panama and rendition of its caudillo, Manuel Noriega, to Miami to be convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
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
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
Hatuey, the TaÃno chief who fought the Spanish conquistadores and is known as the Americas’ earliest revolutionary, was a caudillo.
—
Abraham Jiménez Enoa,
The Dial,
9 Dec. 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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With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
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With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
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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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Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
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The autocrat delights in humiliating so many people, not least tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who once opposed him.
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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 2 Jul. 2026.
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