cacique

Molinistas fancied themselves pragmatic do-gooders who weren’t above shopping at Ross Dress for Less and believed in people power above caciques — larger-than-life leaders.

"We women don't want to overrule the caciques, but we do want to stand alongside them, deciding with them; our role as women is not to divide the community, but to bring everyone together."

The family sat before an altar of saints, melted wax and the bust of a cacique, an indigenous tribal chief.

Veracruz Its lucrative coffee, sugar, and oil industries have long given rise to powerful local leaders, known as caciques, who political parties depended on to deliver votes in exchange for favours and support.

Few would suspect that he was earmarked from birth to become a cacique, a tribal chief.