Dictatorship: Chronicles with Source Analyses
Paper instructions:
Reading Domingo F. Sarmiento, Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants; Or, Civilization and Barbarism (orig. pub. 1845), Chapter XII & Chapter XIII, Pages 201-36:

http://books.google.com/books?id=vmNuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=Facundo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EVbjT5j8Len22gXY45i8Cw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Answer What are the qualities of Facundo described by Sarmiento that make the former a dictator and a tyrant? Are there any aspects of despotism that are left out of Sarmiento’s portrait? Why or why not?