ResumenLa propuesta trata los mecanismos e ideologías que guiaron a Venezuela, 1870-1877, inicio del Guzmanato, go- bierno de Antonio Guzmán Blanco, período significativo en Venezuela de 1870, con problemas insolubles desde la Independencia. Asombran acciones parecidas a las de los monarcas ilustrados, diferentes a las concepciones políticas liberales y positivistas.Abstract  This proposal entails the devices and ideologies that guided Venezuela from 1870 to 1877, the beginning of Guzmanato, the autonomous government of Antonio Guzman Blanco. This significant period in Venezuelan political history poses insoluble problems dating back to the Independence. Interestingly enough, several ac- tions similar to those of the monarchy take place, diffe- rent from the liberal and positivist political conceptions.