Cauillo is a Spanish (caudilho in Portuguese) word usually used to designate "a political-military leader at the head of an authoritarian power." At the beginning this word was used to refer to military power: Indíbil and Mandonio, Viriato, Almanzor (sometimes in the modern historiography), (Don Pelayo) and other fighters of the Reconquista, even Bolivar, Franco, etc., but in Hispanoamerica has evolved other significance: the liberal caudillo lawyer and politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and other nuances with a significance mostly demagogic and even without state responsibilities like cacique in Spain. It is usually translated into English as "leader" or "chief," or, more pejoratively, warlord, "dictator" or "strongman". "Caudillo" was the term used to refer to charismatic populist leaders among the people.