Associationism and the Exercise of Power Maracaibo Venezuela (1880-1910)

Associationism is a product of modernity and the dissolution of the old European regime; the last decades of the 19th century represent a stellar moment in the history of Maracaibo favored by a series of events that matured definitively in these years. In this context the associative culture burst forth as an expression of the level of ideological and intellectual development that the actors of the Zulian public space of the time had reached with a high sense of awareness of their role as dynamizers of the process of construction of a society based on the values of modernity that prevailed in the world a circumstance that reinforces the sense of regional identity that even today distinguishes the inhabitants of Maracaibo.