The aim of this work is to analyse the system of government established in Venezuela during the period 2013-2016, seeking to specify the theoretical and institutional criteria that allow us to define whether the government is democratic or not, as well as to study the mechanisms used by the political regime to establish itself in the country. Methodologically, it is a work with a qualitative approach, a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, descriptive, documentary, with a bibliographic-documentary design. Documentary observation was used as a technique and as an instrument to organise the information. For a better understanding of the information, three phases will be used, in which the analysis of the different sentences will be developed. The theory of democracy is developed, where different tendencies are conjugated to give form to the variety of the term, and ways of applying it in political regimes; then it is explained how the conceptual elements of democracy are condensed with the competitive authoritarianism and totalitarianism of the State in the conformation of such a structure in the Venezuelan government.