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The auspicious circumstances have had Barquisimeto between 1884 and 1902, a university campus as original nucleus of higher education, should make preliminary considerations of this precursor fact, to understand diaphanous, projection and transcendence of UCLA, who over three decades of tenacious systematic and continuous activity, she has raised its academic hierarchy and its mission in the service of the best causes of the country and the field polarized in the region. BACKGROUND Spain transplanted to their overseas dominions, the university model Salamanca established in the peninsula."
In its initial stage, it was a traditional and dogmatic university, copied all the vices and defects of the system where it came from, which means alliance between power and dogma, being therefore closed combination of the two preeminent powers the time. the temporal power and spiritual power This first university model, failed to adapt to new conditions and demands arising from the emancipation, even though he himself became the focus cultura¡ where trained intellectually lawyers and political leaders who carried out the heroic feat of separating from the Spanish domination and define and map out new, more interpretative of reality and social evolution of our republican institutions. An important testimony is imposed to draw the formation and development of the University, It is closely linked immense civilizing work of the Chair, Romana. Affectively dedication and enthusiasm filmmaker Popes, they arranged support and protection of the nascent institution of higher learning.