Julio César

El poblamiento de los muiscas “a la manera española” y la creación de una república de indios en la provincia de Santafé en el Nuevo Reino de Granada fueron una tarea compleja y relativamente lenta. Además de reducir y controlar los poderes locales que estaban en manos de encomenderos y vecinos poderosos, dicha labor exigió un conjunto de condiciones sociales, políticas, culturales e institucionales sin las cuales era imposible que las autoridades coloniales implementaran las orientaciones de gobierno, aquellas que la Corona española ordenaba cumplir en sus territorios del Nuevo...

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Desde la primera Constitución de Venezuela, en 1811, hasta la carta magna que ha estado vigente desde 1999, el camino que ha debido sortear la democracia en el país ha sido tortuoso, lleno de avances y retrocesos que la alejan de su plena consolidación. Este libro, pródigo en constataciones históricas, pone de relieve dos aspectos cruciales: el debate constante entre el federalismo que auspiciaron los redactores del texto fundacional de la república y el centralismo que propugnó Bolívar, por un lado, y, por el otro, la pugnacidad del mundo castrense en pos del poder, siempre en...