18 Facts About Caudillos

1.

Caudillos were very influential in the history of Spanish America and have a legacy that has influenced political movements in the modern era.

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2.

Caudillos have been the subject of literature in Spanish America.

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3.

Caudillos could maintain their position by protecting the interests of regional elites.

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4.

Caudillos served as Bolivia's fourteenth president from 1848 until 1855.

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5.

Caudillos'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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6.

Caudillos was unable to leave a legacy and his populist programs died with him.

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7.

Caudillos came from a wealthy landowning family, but acquired large tracts of land in Buenos Aires province.

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8.

Caudillos had a popular following among the lower classes in Buenos Aires province.

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9.

Caudillos became the model for what a caudillo was supposed to be.

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10.

Caudillos 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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11.

Caudillos 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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12.

Caudillos was forced to lift the ban on certain imports, like textiles, which opened a trade with Great Britain.

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13.

Caudillos was driven out of power and eventually ended up in Great Britain where he died in 1877.

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14.

Caudillos 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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15.

Caudillos has been a controversial figure in Hispanic American history, in an effort to aid the poor.

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16.

Caudillos's slogan was “order and progress, ” which was enforced by armed men controlled by the president, the Rurales.

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17.

Caudillos later became hostile to the United States, which helped oust him in 1909.

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18.

Caudillos returned to power with his third wife Isabel Peron, whom he made vice president.

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