Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America

In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians anthropologists sociologists political scientists journalists and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists apologists enemies and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera the Colombian Rafael Núñez Mexicos Porfirio Díaz the Somoza family of Nicaragua the Dominican Benefactor Rafael Trujillo the Argentinians Juan Perón and his wife Evita Paraguays Alfredo Stroessner - called The Tyrannosaur Chiles Augusto Pinochet and Cubas Fidel Castro.