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Recent Examples of caudillo
Hatuey, the Taíno chief who fought the Spanish conquistadores and is known as the Americas’ earliest revolutionary, was a caudillo.
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Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
Any analogy to this Presidency can be found only in the history of other countries, in the whims and cruelties and fantasies and insanities of the tyrants of antiquity, tin-pot dictators, Latin American caudillos, and modern strongmen.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
Instead of building strong political parties with coherent platforms, the country ended up with rival caudillos— Sandinista on the left and anti-Sandinista on the right.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
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Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
Any analogy to this Presidency can be found only in the history of other countries, in the whims and cruelties and fantasies and insanities of the tyrants of antiquity, tin-pot dictators, Latin American caudillos, and modern strongmen.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
Instead of building strong political parties with coherent platforms, the country ended up with rival caudillos— Sandinista on the left and anti-Sandinista on the right.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caudillo
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His breakthrough came playing Oda Nobunaga, the volatile 16th-century warlord, in an NHK taiga drama that ran for much of the year.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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The third season showed two galactic powers coming together to fight a fearsome warlord known as The Mule (Pilou Asbæk).—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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Now the ultimate challenge is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher because if the fighters from Earth aren't victorious, Outworld overlord Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) will invade and take over the planet.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Big Ten has officially sealed its status as our new overlord.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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The game is a playground for Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern potentates, and Latin American strongmen—his people.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Khomeini was a leader of opposition to the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an authoritarian who wanted to modernize the country.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Mar. 2026
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Khamenei, 87, who had been in power for more than three decades, was viewed by critics as a repressive authoritarian responsible for the mass murder of thousands of protesters and other human rights abuses.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Starting an expensive professional golf league was a roundabout way to launder the reputation of a violent autocrat.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Trump’s first target was Venezuelan autocrat Maduro, a close ally of Cuba, and many Cuban Americans saw that intervention as a step toward realizing Rubio’s desire to topple the island’s communist government.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
20 Apr. 2026
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The ensuing rulers, the Joseon monarchy, did their predecessors one better.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Skipping that meeting and quitting OPEC at the same time will be seen as a snub to Saudi’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Menin has supported Wilson, Bottcher’s former chief of staff, who had his ex-boss’s blessing in the race.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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On behalf of everyone at Disney, on behalf of [new CEO] Josh [D’Amaro] and [Disney Entertainment, Studios, chairman] Alan Bergman and [FX boss] John Landgraf and Debra OConnell, our new head of Disney Entertainment Television.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Caudillo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caudillo. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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