Caudillo is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power.
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16 Facts About Caudillo
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Caudillo served as Bolivia's fourteenth president from 1848 until 1855.
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Caudillo's enemies wanted to destroy the state-run projects that helped nationalist program but likewise improved the public sphere on which the country's poor were reliant.
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Caudillo was unable to leave a legacy and his populist programs died with him.
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Caudillo came from a wealthy landowning family, but acquired large tracts of land in Buenos Aires province.
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Caudillo had a popular following among the lower classes in Buenos Aires province.
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Caudillo became the model for what a caudillo was supposed to be.
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Caudillo used his military experience to gain support from gauchos and estancias to create an army that would challenge the leadership of Argentina.
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Caudillo attempted to impose a ban on imported goods to help and win the support of the artisans in Argentina, but he failed.
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Caudillo was forced to lift the ban on certain imports, like textiles, which opened a trade with Great Britain.
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Caudillo was driven out of power and eventually ended up in Great Britain where he died in 1877.
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Caudillo based society on communal properties, rather than centralized authoritarianism, attempting to revert to the methods of the communal Indian society that existed previously in Paraguay.
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Caudillo has been a controversial figure in Hispanic American history, in an effort to aid the poor.
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Caudillo's slogan was “order and progress, ” which was enforced by armed men controlled by the president, the Rurales.
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Caudillo later became hostile to the United States, which helped oust him in 1909.
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Caudillo returned to power with his third wife Isabel Peron, whom he made vice president.
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