Primarily, Facundo is propaganda against Rosas, the Argentine dictator or caudillo. Sarmiento writes in Facundo, “Rosas invented nothing; his talent was only to copy his predecessors and turn the brutal instinct of the ignorant masses into a cold and calculated system.” Sarmiento is criticizing not only Rosas, but the people of Argentina. Sarmiento believes that all of what Rosas had done in the country was copying other caudillos t

As a tyrant, Rosas was able to take more control over Argentina than any caudillo before him. Sarmiento and several other thinkers in were exiled from the country for being insubordinate to the powerful caudillo. In the case of Sarmiento however, this only allowed for him to speak his mind clearly and without fear. From exile he wrote “It is necessary to employ terror in war…. All means are good…. The greatest truth in politics is that the means are always justified by the end.”

There is much that Sarmiento says about the history of Argentina and it’s caudillos throughout Facundo. Most of all, however, the book is propaganda against Rosas as a caudillo. Sarmiento insults Rosas and his dictatorship. He continually speaks of how Argentina will go nowhere under a dictatorship and of the need for a civilized, politically intelligent president. Facundo provides much insight on the period in Latin American history and also helps in understan

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