After the death of Juan Vicente Gómez Worthy "The liberal tyrant", Caracas begins a slow process of modernization and orderly, just as was the politics of those times. The planning at that time was changing from that small village that was to become what the poet Antonio Pérez Bonalde called "The city of red roofs." 
During the military governments of López Contreras, and Pérez Jiménez Medina Angarita (1936-1958 period) there was an orderly growth of the city of Caracas. Carlos Raúl Villanueva was visionary architect who dreamed of a modern and tidy Caracas. There were great expectations for Caracas. Which is dreamed igualáramos to Buenos Aires or Madrid that were already large cities for the time. During this period widened roads, built hotels like the Humboldt, is generally followed with the city of Villanueva project that was being built. The development project was going according to plan.
With the advent of democracy, they relaxed the projects. "As if tomorrow there in this country. This country everything is today. It is all for now. Pure emergency. It is a country in emergency " Javier Vidal reflects the teacher in his Showtime. From that moment everything was built on this premise of an emergency, it is all for now, without thinking of future consequences. This resulted in chaos. Factors such as migration from rural to urban areas with populist governments and permissive, did that instead of constructing buildings where new citizens were established, they were allowed to build huts began to cause serious architectural problems in the city. Hence we see terrible neighborhoods such as La Bombilla where there seems to be breathing. It is also possible to see in Caracas disorders such as a building in the middle of farms.
is important to remember that Venezuela is primarily a Valley (what happens is that we forget to see both ranch) and therefore plants grow even in the midst of the chaotic development, which makes us understand that this land is extremely fertile.
In addition, these democratic governments gave some solutions to the highways of Caracas, as the construction of the Cota Mil, which once ruled much of the city dwellers of the problem, slowing down a good part of the chaos. But remember all that democracy
lasted forty years, with the Cota Mil the only major road project during that time. There is very little for all the time they were in power these "melcheviques Creoles (Melchevismo: Doctrine and Practice melcheviques basically a mild form of socialism)
But all is not chaos in this city. There are also areas such as Las Mercedes, the Cafetal, Chuao, Prados del Este, Alto Prado, Manzanares, Los Naranjos, where there is a certain order, at least from the architectural point of view. However, these areas are not exempt from Caracas chaos caused by the amount of cars and highways Revolution 11 years have not bothered to expand, improve and maintain leading to more chaos, not to mention the subway service and systems external transport.
Where are the achievements of these "Bolshevik revolutionaries? Well, besides the project of Caracas-La Guaira, there has been no solution to solve this major problem.
In conclusion we can say that Caracas was a city that initially had high expectations of being, which for example is Bogota today, a silver cup. To end the term with these unanswered questions How can you have allowed such a mess? Are the order and progress possible in the chaos? Is it true that Venezuela seeks order and fails?
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