Although it is common to think of caudillos in the context of spanish america, the prototypes are deep in the iberian past. Two decades of warfare had cost the lives of between one fourth and onethird of venezuela s population, which by 1830 was estimated at about 800,000. Caudillismo y guerra civiles en venezuela 1830 a 1835. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km 2 353,841 sq mi. Furthermore, the cocoabased export economy lay in ruins, a victim of physical destruction, neglect, and the disruption of trade. Venezuelas centurylong postindependence era of caudillismo is perhaps best. Venezuela the century of caudillismo country studies. Twice elected president under the 1830 constitution, paez, on the one hand. Clio y siquis, o una vision del caudillismo en venezuela. As a result, it was relatively simple for the young nation to shift its agricultural export. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Causas principales del caudillismo en venezuela 1 crisis politicas. Quizas te interese 5 consecuencias del caudillismo en venezuela.