Caracas: a metropolis in mutation

Abstract

The paper speaks of the Venezuelan political and intellectual establishment as having adopted and anything but original stance for the main part revealing a vast fund of both ignorance and prejudice as to the great city. The paper in no way sets out to point up the many valid criticisms that the city is rightfully heir to and remain to be resolved in the great conglomerations that gave rise to them but rather takes to task those eternal carpings that see in the huge city no more than a parasitic drag on society's progressing as a whole, those others that objetc that the city sucks dry the labour and wealth of all its outlying areas and this only to the end of keeping up its own seeming and flimsy well-being. Faced with such fallacies, the need for an administrative effort to establish a democratic example of government that would co-ordinate undertakings, allot means and call for a socioeconomic intergrating of the population as a whole grows imperative, and this imperative must be assumed as stemming from the concept and call of a metropolitan area envisioned as a great city.