3. Generals Castro and Gómez (1899-1935).
4. Initiated on October 18, 1945.
Páez, Guzmán Blanco, Castro, Gómez and Pérez Jiménez- Betancourt, are the men who are the central points of their stage, each one within his political framework. In these cycles we find that, in the Presidency, there are alternating persons, who do not repeat their term.
Some transition periods between the mentioned phases, complete the historical scenario: between Páez and Guzmán Blanco (1863-1870), between Guzmán Blanco and Castro-Gómez (1888-1899) and between Gómez and 10/18/1945 (Generals López Contreras and Medina).
Three cycles have already been fulfilled, and the 4th, initiated with Pérez Jiménez- Betancourt, is under evolution.
Gil Fortoul writes: “The date of August 29 marks the agony of the régime established in 1830”.
Of General Páez, Dr. Quintero states in his manifest, before leaving for Curazao: “It has been already evidenced that there is no government possible for Venezuela, while General Páez resides in it”.
Siso Martínez writes of Guzmán Blanco: “He constitutes the most outstanding political personality in the second half of the XIX Century”.
In “The Man and his History”, Gil Fortoul writes: “Guzmán governed 18 years, either as President, either as one who inspired national politics, imitating with this the role that Páez represented from 1830 to 1848”. Díaz Sánchez states: “In his personality the most mysterious forces of history and geography are found”, when he wrote about Guzmán Blanco.
Of General Gómez, Siso Martínez writes in his History of Venezuela: “The Gómez autocracy that exists since 1908 up to December, 1935, constitutes the most dilated power concentrated in the hands of one man throughout our restless history, it is a consequence of a political and social evolution”.