Modern Latin America

For our discussion we should consider the following questions:

How historians define Liberalism and Conservatism in Latin American? To what degree this ideologies plunged the new nations into a series of crises? And What role Caudillismo played in creating an unstable national situation?

How was/is Caudillo define?

What are the major problems faced by the Brazilian and Peruvian groups involved in their struggle to create a stable nation?