The former Venezuelan president assumed the decentralization policy as an essential piece of State reform.

One of the policies that characterized the Government of Ramón J. Velásquez, President of the Republic elected by Congress in 1993, was to convert decentralization into a national policy.

Therefore one of his first decisions was to appoint a minister of state for decentralization. He also created the National Commission for Decentralization and the Territorial Council of Government, in order to regulate intergovernmental relations and deepen the process at the local level together with governors and mayors.

In addition, it created the intergovernmental fund for decentralization, with the objective of creating a financing mechanism.

It is worth mentioning that by decree-Law, in 1993 the Value Added Tax was established, via Enabling Law.

In addition, FIDES was established to administer resources from VAT, which was attached to the Ministry of Interior Relations. The idea of the fund was to administratively and financially support the decentralization process.

In its fight for its main policy, it developed several regulations for its application, including some mentioned above and others such as: deconcentration of powers in matters of transportation, appointment of directors of the departments of the ministries in the states, creation of the council from governments of the Caracas Metropolitan Area, transfers to the states of public health services.

He was also the creator of the Consumer Protection Law, which entrusts governors and mayors with the powers of inspection and price control.

"Narco-pardon" . The Velásquez Government was overshadowed by the so-called "narco-pardon" of Larry Tovar Acuña, a case in which the former president's secretary irregularly obtained the president's signature to release the drug trafficker, representative of the Medellín cartel in Venezuela.