... frustrations with how independence had led to situations where caudillos (authoritarian leaders) rose to power.
Bolivar had wanted a united Spanish America, a great nations, but the wars of independence had tended to result in charismatic military rulers leading their own countries in authoritarian ways -- what we today would call dictators.
To avoid a dictatorship. I would guess
Answer:
Joseph Stalin
(Soviet political leader)
The overall structure is informative
