Comerciantes alemanes en el occidente de Venezuela a finales del siglo XIX

Abstract

Venezuela, in 1920, was offered for consideration by foreign investors as a mosaic of economic regions that are mainly dedicated to the agro-export. Consummate independence, and created the Republic of 1830, regional economies remained in the 19th century.Thanks to the growing global demand for coffee, three of the circuits agro, linked to the ports of La Guaira, Maracaibo and Puerto Cabello, initiated a stage of free trade expansion and consolidation. From the early 1840s the Germans gradually assumed control of the wearer agro-export circuit and basically monopolized the trade of coffee.

Keywords

• Venezuela
• agro-export
• independence
• Germans
• Maracaibo
• coffee