Semblanza del general Juan Vte. Gómez

By V. Márquez Bustillos

Subjects: Politics and government, Politics, and Venezuelan society, government

Description: Adulation of a dictator that filled an institutional and social void in Venezuela. Through the maze of interested praise and the complicated power struggles, emerges the profile of a resourceful and Machiavellian paternalistic despot. Gómez had a natural talent for reading the motives of the men around him.