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Week 5: Caudillos vs. the Nation State

I found this week’s readings most interesting. The entire way through reading them, I found myself questioning: what has changed; are caudillos unique to Latin America simply because they have a name for it? Curious about the literal meaning of the word ‘caudillo’, I looked it up in various sources, and I found words such […]

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