Venzuelan president Guzmán Blanco uses the increased…

Venzuelan president Guzmán Blanco uses the increased revenue for additional activities that contribute to national development.

Education advances notably, while the development of a modern governmental bureaucracy and infrastructures for communications and transportation—roads, railroads, port facilities, and telegraph lines—provide vital support for expanding export agriculture.

Caracas especially benefits from public works and grows into one of South America's premier cities.

The vainglorious Guzmán Blanco, who likes to be referred to as the "Illustrious American," dedicates as many of these projects to himself as possible.