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| | americas.org - Caudillismo in Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Caudillo The head or chief of state of a Spanish-speaking country; spec. |
 | | Span.,= military strongman], type of South American political leader that arose with the 19th-century…The first caudillos were often generals who, leading private armies, used their military might to achieve power in the newly independent states. |
 | | The two “caudillos” are, of course, Daniel Ortega, leader of the once-revolutionary Sandinistas, and Arnoldo Alemán, the most recent past president who is now serving time for corruption. |
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