Essays on Caudillos

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

Individual Project

The experience of indigenous tribes must have been very bad when the European colonialists started entering their regions. Although the Native Americans had no weaponry to match that of the Europeans they were attacked when the colonialists felt it was necessary to take their land. On the other hand there were colonists that did not want to take over and take everything. Scott L. Malcomson (2000) the author of One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race writes that many encounters on a face-to-face level did not involve any violence. Some of the European colonists accepted the American Indians ...

Arguably, philosophical issues in Latin America date from pre-cabralian and pre-Colombian times. As a matter of fact, there are many philosophies that have existed since that era. It is crucial to note that the centuries of colonial powers had a lasting impression in Latin America. Some of the philosophies that influenced the Latin American culture included positivists, imperialism, capitalism, and catholic. In Latin America, the natives believed in existence on supernatural being; hence, there philosophies were focused on developing knowledge on how to conciliate the spirits. In the 17th century, the philosophies that influenced Latin America was medieval ideas, which was ...

Philosophy in Latin America was influenced by an amalgamation of native and European cultures. Cultures such as the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, Tupi-Guarani, Carib and other native cultures had a decidedly different philosophy than the predominately Spanish and Portuguese Europeans that came to dominate society after their discovery of the New World. The initial influence came from the Catholic Church and the colonial governments established by the European nations. As society developed these governments were supplanted by the control taken by the Caudillos.

The Caudillos wielded a personal power grounded in local militia, landholdings and the local lower classes dependant on them ...