«2014 Panorama Social de América Latina»(PDF). United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. United Nations. Consultado em 4 de abril de 2017
From 1917, "greater awareness of the country's oil potential had the pernicious effect of increasing the corruption and intrigue amongst Gomez's family and entourage, the consequences of which would be felt up to 1935 – B. S. McBeth (2002), Juan Vicente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908–1935, Cambridge University Press, p17.
