The roots of caudillismo -- The public man / Glen Caudill Dealy -- Caudillo politics : a structural analysis -- Political theory and the caudillo -- The search for legitimacy -- Hidalgo and Calleja : the colonial bases of caudillismo -- Facundo Quiroga : the caudillo as Barbarian -- Folk Caudillos -- The taming of a Colombian caudillo -- The creation and control of a caudillo -- American in danger -- Scientific peace : the idealogy of a reluctant dictator -- Caciquismo in our America -- The dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz / Luis Gonzalez -- Foreign factors -- Dictators and the military -- Continuismo : the search for political longevity -- A dictator extols democracy -- Inside a dictatorship -- Trujillo and the caudillo tradition -- Dynasty : Nicaraguan style -- Is a caudilla possible? : the case of Evita Peron -- A case for Caudillaje and Juan Peron -- Fidel Castro speaks on personal power -- Fidel's power to disrupt -- Pinochet's route to power in Chile -- Paraguay's Stroessner : the ultimate caudillo?