Ordinary Caudillo

Blogger Egor Zyryanov writes about how in Latin America one of the first leadership regimes arose in the 19th century:

“60 years after the fall in the 1810s of the Spanish Empire, Argentina was in a state of permanent civil war. <...> The country gradually spread to pieces.

This chaos caused to life the phenomenon of Kaudillo - military leaders who led the people exhausted by the post -colonial bloom. Caudillo were both charismatic boards, mafia bosses, and tribal leaders, and, most importantly, large landowners containing private armies.

In 1820, Kaudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas entered the army in the army Buenos Aires. <...> Soon, Juan Manuel de Rossas became the capital's governor, and then the dictator of the Argentine Confederation.

Having received Argentina at the disposal, Rosas did not change the usual management methods. His system of power had little in common with abstract political ideologies. The main thing in her was personal devotion to the leader. Argentinean Kaudillo is not a liberal, not a nationalist or a conservative. He is Kaudillo. <...>

Rosas imagined himself as a “man from the people” <...> . He exposed his liberal opponents with Euro -centric aristocrats, divorced from Argentine life. <...>

The 17-year-old dictatorship of Rosas, although it proclaimed itself federalist, was actually a centralist tyrant. “Masosk” is a secret police, and in fact a terrorist organization with the motto “Federation or death!” - She arranged a real repressive hell in Argentina, although the yard was not XX, but the XIX century.

Agents of the “Gric” were “taking into account opinions” with unpredictable consequences for those whose “opinion” turned out to be in the wrong daddy. The executions under Rosas began to be “educational”. <...>

Juan Manuel de Rossas ended his life ingloriously - a farmer in England, where he was after his collective efforts of almost all of Latin America was shot down from the Argentinean throne in 1852.

The legacy of the authorities of Kaudillo-the power of the “patron” over “clients”, the leadership, charismatic type of government-is not an interpreto of the populist regimes of the 20th century, like the peronist, today it remains an important part of the national identity and the cultural identity of the Argentines. There, Rosas even for 20 pesos was in the 90s! They still love leaders in Latin America. ”