causing the ruin of many landowners, which was added to oil exploitation in Zulia and east. In the second half of the twentieth century became Zaraza newsprint supplier, rice, beans, beans, cassava and cotton for eastern and central China.
In Chaguaramal (today Zaraza) officials were appointed by the King of Spain through the representatives they had in the Captaincy General of Venezuela . After independence the authorities were designated in Caracas , these authorities are: Lieutenant of Justice, Head of Real Estate & Head of Militia. These represented the National Government and Justice related to land use.
At the end of the nineteenth century , was designated a Municipal Council composed of five people, a judge and a civil and military leader, and in the twentieth century by elections involving those who could read and write elected: Councillors, Representatives and Presidents State
