La reterritorialización de un espacio de frontera. El Llano alto occidental de Venezuela, 1950-2000

Abstract

The west high plains of Venezuela, after a fluorishing time agrarian in the second half of the 18th century, suffered a long breakdown due to military and socioeconomics backwardness during 19th century. The growing agricultural demand in the county and the wide regional endowment of natural resources, valued the region as emergent frontier territory, under national public policies and several local actors, since the second half of 20th century. However that process implied forces of uneven regional reterritorialization, which here are examined through a flexible constructivist approach for revealing factors, actors and process in the new border territory.