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発音

• IPA: /kɔˈdiː(j)oʊ/, /kaʊˈdiː(j)oʊ/

名詞

caudillo (plural caudillos)

1. A leader.
   • 2020 June 1, Aris Roussinos, Covid has exposed America as a failed state‎:

     While an America in decline may throw up a more competent caudillo than Trump in time, it is difficult to reasonably conclude that it possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long, global struggle against a near-competitor.

2. A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
   • 1994 October 14, Dallas Morning News:

     For, despite all the debunking and cynicism in this generation, there still are, amazingly, trusting people around who need to believe in great helmsmen, dear leaders, fuhrers, presidents-for-life, generalissimos and charismatic caudillos.

   • 2024, Marc Margolis, Opinion: Want to reform the Supreme Court? These strongmen can show a thing or two, in: NPR, August 13 2024

     Then there’s Mexico’s outgoing populist and wannabe caudillo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is pushing a crowd-pleasing law to require all judges be elected by popular vote, including to the Supreme Court.

派生語

参考

• caudillismo

Further reading

• caudillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• lodicula