Crossword clues for caudillo
caudillo
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dictator in Spain or Latin America, 1852, from Spanish caudillo, cabdillo "leader, chief," from Late Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (genitive capitis) "head" (see capitulum). Later in Spain taken by Franco as a title in imitation of German Führer, Italian Duce.
Wiktionary
n. 1 leader 2 A military dictator, especially one ruling in Latin America.
Wikipedia
A caudillo (; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head") was a military- landowner who possessed political power and exercised it in a form considered authoritarian by its adversaries. The term can be translated into English as leader or chief, or more pejoratively as warlord, dictator or strongman and has been used to refer to charismatic populist leaders. Caudillos were very influential in the history of Hispanic America and have a legacy that has influenced political movements in the modern day.
The term originally described leaders possessing military power, such as Indibilis and Mandonius, Viriathus, Almanzor (sometimes in the modern historiography), Don Pelayo and other fighters of the Reconquista, and others such as Simón Bolivar, Francisco Franco and Juan Perón. In Hispanic America, another sense developed of the caudillo as a demagogic lawyer and politician, with the populist Jorge Eliécer Gaitán having been honored with the title "Caudillo of The Colombian People". Other uses of the term referred to leaders without state responsibilities like cacique in Spain and those wielding oligarchical– plutocratic power.
Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.
Usage examples of "caudillo".
Papa was a caudillo, a provincial landowner with a hundred thousand acres of pampas and a work force of cowboys that doubled as his private army.
About one thing, Caudillo, there must be clarity: we are fighting a battle of life and death and cannot at this time make any gifts .
El caudillo de la parroquia le da una carta para un tal Azevedo Bandeira, del Uruguay.
Comandante Dictator-Designate Franco Milhous Caudillo wore a Ruritanian uniform, quite threadbare but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and crossed bandoliers full of spent cartridge cases.
The official held up the three books very nearly to the level of the portrait of the Caudillo, as if for his curse.
On the front page the Caudillo still howled for the Rock, and some Arab leader called vainly for the extermination of Israel.
On the front page the Caudillo still howled for the Rock, and some Arab leader called vainly for the extermination of Israel.
Era caudillo electoral de una zona importante, y cobraba fuertes subsidios de las casas de farol colorado, de los garitos, de las pindongas callejeras y los ladrones de ese sórdido feudo.
Es verdad que yo padecí cautiverio en el alcázar de Yakub el Doliente, a raíz de la conspiración que fraguó mi hermano Ibrahim, con el fementido y vano socorro de los caudillos negros del Kordofán, que lo denunciaron.
Abenjacán el Bojarí, caudillo o rey de no sé qué tribu nilótica, murió en la cámara central de esa casa a manos de su primo Zaid.
It appealed to John's baroque taste and prompted memories of the victorious group-effigies erected by the Caudillo: the Crewsy Fixers, with drums and guitar, in highly compressed frozen confectioner's custard -- whether really to be eaten or not was not clear, though the sound of laughing chiselling was coming through at that moment.
He had jowls not unlike those of his Caudillo and even allomorphs of those eyebrows.
Rich punks from the city who want our people to join the army of the people and die for the revolution, so the rich punks can be the new caudillos .