Caudillo (English spelling)

Japanese: カウディーリョ - かうでぃーりょ（英語表記）caudillo

In Spanish, this term refers to a leader or political boss. Many of these leaders emerged in Latin America shortly after independence in the first half of the 19th century, and they generally shared the following characteristics: (1) they were charismatic, (2) they had military power with armed peasants as their private soldiers, (3) many of them came from landowning families, and (4) they rejected the parliamentary system and aspired to dictatorship. Possible reasons for the emergence of such leaders in Latin America shortly after independence include the fact that only military power could fill the power vacuum that arose following the collapse of the colonial system, and that the masses, tired of the political turmoil that followed after independence, longed for the emergence of a strong leader.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

スペイン語で統領ないし政治的ボスを指す。19世紀前半の独立直後のラテン･アメリカに多数輩出し，彼らは一般に，(1)カリスマ的資質を有し，(2)武装した農民を私兵とする軍事力を備え，(3)地主の出身者が多く，(4)議会制度を否定し独裁政治を志向する，といった共通性を持っていた。独立直後のラテン･アメリカでこうした指導者が出現した原因としては，植民地支配体制の崩壊に伴って生じた権力の空白状態を埋めうるのは軍事力のみであったこと，独立後の政治的混乱に飽きた大衆が強力な指導者の出現を切望したこと，などが指摘されよう。

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