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Dominican Republic SANTANA AND BAEZ: THE CAUDILLOS TAKE CHARGE
Two leaders dominated the period between 1844 and 1864:
General Pedro Santana Familias and Buenaventura Báez
Méndez.
Dissimilar in appearance and temperament, the two
alternated in
power by means of force, factionalism, and repeated
efforts to
secure their country's protection or annexation by a
foreign
power. Their unprincipled, self-serving dominance did much
to
entrench the tradition of caudillo rule in the Dominican
Republic.
Data as of December 1989
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