“El maridaje inconsulto” o pacto de unión de los Estados Zulia y Falcón durante el guzmanato (1881-1890)

Abstract

The mechanisms used by the president of Venezuela, Antonio Guzman Blanco, to achieve the fusion of Zulia and Falcón states between the years 1881-1890 are discussed. For their compilation methodology of historical-documentary research was used. It is concluded that the merger of Zulia and Falcón states was aimed to exert tight control over the development of political and economic plans of the Zulia leadership and impose the dictates of the federal government. Therefore it was essential to strip the Zulia of their autonomy, the administrative control of economic resources and invalidated as a center of political power.