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In view of Russia's endemic corruption, American pundits are reconsidering whether a strongman president is such a bad thing.
Despite Hitler’s efforts at persuasion, Spain’s new caudillo (strongman), Generalísimo Franco, managed to keep Spain out of World War II.
When that cause, too, failed and, after a decade of blood-spilling, the country ended up with a Byzantine coalition of interests presided over by a strongman, the Paz family went into exile in Los Angeles.
A NYT below-the-fold article quotes an observer who claims that the election signals the "end of the era of the caudillo (strongman)."
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.