The logo
for Lesson 11 is a caudillo
The end result was a long struggle between these two
camps, which had local variants in each nation. The energies that could
have gone into building the new nations were wasted in political bickering,
and all too often the reins of power were held by caudillos. These tended
to ally themselves with the landowning elite and with the Church, and thus
were drawn into the conservative camp. The alliance of military, landowner
and priest was a powerful one that was to dominate Latin American politics
for many years, and in some cases continues into our own times.