The beginnings of Venezuelan press were inevitably linked to national political events. This medium of expression and information has become the
most expeditious vehicle to convey the modernist thought. The ideas of the
Enlightenment and the Encyclopedia have had positive impact positive on the
Spanish American Colonies generating numerous independence movements
that will shape a new political, economic, social and cultural order, thus becoming independent republics. Ideas of liberty, fraternity, equality, sovereignty, citizenship, liberalism, constitutional order, federalism, confederation, positivism,and nationalism have shaped during the Venezuelan nineteenth century a com-plex political-ideological network that gives birth to a peculiar way of thinking.