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Why did caudillismo triumph over liberalism in the politics of Latin America before 1880? Although by the end of the nineteenth century's second decade Latin America had succeeded in ridding itself of the colonial rule which had dictated its every move for three hundred years, liberalism, which was poised to step into the political vacuum left in the wake of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies, found it impossible to find its feet. Latin America at this stage was still very much a product of its own history, run by conquistadores turned encomenderos turned aristocrats, ruling, paternally or despotically, as they pleased, their rural haciendas and mineral rich fiefdoms as God-sent overlords of their essentially non-white labour forces. An aspiration to political stability - which it was assumed would then, naturally, bring economic stability - made liberalism look like the political apparatus best suited to perform the regulatory role of these...

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